Abstract
Abstract Since this is a book about the nature of status and sacral relationships, an extensive analysis of India’s enormously complex political and economic structures is beyond the scope of this endeavor. Rather, the task at hand is to indicate some of the key links between the status order and the organization of political and economic power. The essence of political and economic power in an agrarian society is the control of land and labor. This chapter considers the ways such control is dependent on the status order, and more specifically, how a theory of status relations can help us understand the mechanisms used to produce political legitimacy.
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