There was a disputed election for the village council in 1990 and a member of his Rajput caste became head of the council, or sarpanch.
Traditional groups were characterized by a markedly hierarchical social stratification, including royalty, an aristocracy, a warrior class, commoners, slaves, and members of low-status artisan castes; at their head was a paramount chief.
The resulting variable is matched to households by caste of the household head and district.
Total DNA was extracted from the entire insect (larvae and eggs), a leg (queens) or the head (other castes), using the DNeasy Tissue Kit (Qiagen, Japan) for queens, and 10% Chelex 100 (Bio-Rad, USA) for other individuals.
In 1990 a member of his high-status Rajput caste was elected to the head of the council, or sarpanch.
The largest members of the worker caste, the soldiers had massive heads with powerful muscles and sharp-toothed jaws like serrated wire cutters.
Traditionally, Brahmin women in Maharashtra, unlike those of other castes, did not cover their head with the end of their saree.
When asked whether her family could really kill her husband, because she married outside her caste without permission, she hides her head in the folds of her long diaphanous scarf and nods.
Social caste was reported by the household head.
†Estimates account for cluster randomised design of supplement allocation using generalised estimating equations method and are adjusted for sex, age (months), occupation of head of household, and caste of household during original trial.
