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TABLE 3 C (2)
CASTE DESCRIPTIONS
Village C
Sholapur District, Maharashtra
Traditional or
Caste Occupations
in this
Area
Main Occupations
in this Village
No. of
Households
1975
ADJRANK 2
Wan i
(Lingayat)
Merchants
Three families are engaged in
trading-(2 households have grain
and sundries shops while one
runs a teashop). One household's
three sons are employed
as teacher's. Two families own
land and farm. Altogether the
. group is of average economic
condition.
4
(.013)
ADJRANK 3
Mali Farming Both the families are poor and 2
work regularly as laborers. The
head of one household is employed
as a skilled laborer to prepare
sugar during the sugarcane harvest.
The same household also owns a few
buffaloes.
2
(.007)
ADJRANK 4
Dhangar Shepherds Their main occupations are farming 49
and wage labor. 10% of the households
are rich and they raise sheep
and goats in addition to farming.
Three Dhangar families are the
richest in the village and are
descended from the rulers of the
village in the pre-Independence
period.
Gondhadi Priest of Do not work now as priests. They
deity Khandoba . work as agricultural laborers and
one family member is employed in
the village school. Their earnings
are equal to their expenses.
Contd.