PEASANTRY IN BANGLADESH 95 Cambridge University Press Ltd ; Rahman Atiur, 1986, Peasants and Classes^ op. cit. 32. See chapter eight of my forthcoming book Peasants and Classes, op. cit. for a slightly more indepth treatment of the state and the peasantry. 33. Van Schendel, 1981, Peasant Mobility'. The odds of life in rural Bangladesh, Van Gorcum, Assen, p. 287. 34. Van Schendel. ibid, p. 287. 35. Bhaduri, A, Rahman Z.R. Arn, Lisbet, 1986, 'Persistence and Polarisation : A Study in the Dynamics of Agrarian Contradiction* in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Volums 13, No. 30, April 1986. 36. Bertocci, P.J. 1972 : "Community Structure and Social Rank in Two Villages of Bangladesh' Contributions to Indian Sociology, New Series, No. VI. 37. Abdullah, A (1976), 'Formulating a viable Land Policy—what do we need to know ?* Bangladesh Development Studies, Vol. 6, No. 4, Autumn. 38. We made an empirical attempt to see if Shanin's mobility schema was actually operating in our study villages. The results, though not always conclusive, indicate that the "today's rich were also 'yesterday's rich*. However, a section of them have fallen down the ladder. But hardly many poor peasants could be found to have gained the status of the rich peasantry (see Chapter three of my Peasants and Classes op. cit.).