Migration and Structural Change: A Study of Rural Society in Garhwal Himalaya

agriculture income artisan Bombay Brahmin and Kshatriya caste groups cent Chandigarh Clan Jati clan status correlates cultivation Delhi destination district Domaila and Kamdai Domaila Kamdai Total Domaila village economic emigration factors family members family structure fluidity Gangari Harijans hierarchy Himalaya India indicate joint family Kamdai combined Khasas Khasiya kinship Kotdwara Kumaon labour land majority marriage migrant households migrant wives move non-migrant households non-migrants nuclear families number of children number of migrants occupational prestige occupational structure P. C. Joshi Panwar period Panwar rule Pauri Pauri Garhwal district phenomenon place of origin political population Rajput region return migrants ritual rural areas rural Garhwal rural households rural to urban rural-urban migration sample villages scholars social mobility society of origin socio-economic status Sociology sub-caste system of stratification TABLE tehsil Thul-Jat tion University Press urban areas urban migration Uttar Pradesh variables Varna village Domaila whereas women