ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the nature of the relationship established for that purpose between state level political leaders and their local area supporters. The land seizure and the tacit patronage the act had received from the cm quickly affected the whole area. Divisions within each village, on the basis of personal enmities, were given a common political meaning: that is, if a person with whom a man had enmity had affiliations with the Rarewala paarti, his opponent would automatically join the Kairon paarti. velopments since the cm’s death have revealed the total dependence of the faction at local level on a political leader at the state level for the preservation not only of its power but even of the elementary legal rights of its members. In the Kairon faction the focus was always on the political leader at the state level.
