ABSTRACT
The authors observe family life in a sample of Rajput families, the dominant jati of Khalapur. Relations within a family are in certain important ways similar to relations within a jati and in a community. A main variation on the general pattern by which villagers maintain their respective jatis is between jatiss of higher and those of lower rank. The name of each one in the family may be diminished by their separation. As a reproductive, socializing group, the family provides the primary model of social relations for the child. Long after a family has emigrated to a town, its members still know and can identify themselves by their ancestor's native village. In the region of Gopalpur, village solidarity is explicitly demonstrated in festivals called jatras which are given by a host village to honor its village deity.
