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... the same patrilineage, had been the “functionally corporate unit” there since the mid-fifteenth century, fighting and controlling territory together. While a few brotherhoods remained relatively egalitarian, especially in peripheral areas, by the Mughal era others had become more stratified in terms...

... of social actors, fictions DWE:E~NGLED ENDEAWRS: ETHNOGRAPHIC HISTORIESAND UNTOUCHABLE PASTS 87 that constitute truly “autonomous agents” in wide va- villages by members of Ghasidas’s patrilineage, Bhandar rieties of contemporary discourses on empowerment remained...