ABSTRACT
The theme which I have tried to emphasize throughout this study is that almost every social relationship in Kangra is pervaded by the spirit of hierarchy, and that in this respect there is no fundamental distinction between inter-caste and intra-caste relations. The relationship between junior agnates and their seniors, between wife-givers and wife-takers and between members of different biradaris of the same caste has something of the same quality as the relationship between one caste and another.
