ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the nature of the ties between the members of each faction and the nature of their hostilities with persons of the opposing faction in the local area. It richly illustrates the comment of Gallin that the membership of political factions ‘is recruited primarily on the basis of interpersonal relations’ and local antagonisms. All members of the Kairon faction in the local area had previously been members of the Rarewala faction. The Kairon faction’s unity was based on persons who were aggrieved against certain persons of the Rarewala faction for one reason or another. In the period 1957–65 members of the Kairon faction in the local area were associated with two cases of murder, two cases of attempted murder, with many cases of damage to the person and property of members of the opposite faction, and with involving them in very many fabricated minor cases.
