Gate CLASS rE 'gory AFFERENT]CONOMIC DIPDominant communitie Numberof families [ATION C TABLEFERENTIATI 'SPercentage )F ANDH ; IION, COMMBackward communiti Number I of families RA PEASUNITY-WIS1 1es ^ercenta^e ;ANTRYScheduled and tribes Number of families 47castes Percentage Lan idless 20 7.5 184 28.0 55 53.0 1 acre and below 40 15.5 270 40.5 42 40.0 1.0 — 2.5 acres 63 24.0 52 7.8 7 7.0 2.5 — 5.0 acres 98 37.0 145 22.0 — — 5.0 — 10.0 acres 29 11.0 9 1.4 — — Over 10 acres 14 5.0 2 0.3 — — 264 100.0 662 100.0 104 100.0 Percentage of each community to total families 26 64 10 are found but none from scheduled castes and tribes. Landowners of over 5 acres comprise 16 per cent of the families from the dominant community back-ground and 1.7 per cent from the backward. In consideration of the distribution of families belonging to the dominant communities among different sections of the peasantry, the party of the working class has to be extremely careful and persistent in its attempts to draw in the poor and middle-peasant families and to neutralize the rich-peasant sections in the struggle against landlordism. There is every possibility that the landlord and rich-persant sections of the dominant communities depict the struggle as one of all other communities against their own,, in view of the former's 53 per cent majority among landowners of over 2.5 acres. Further, one should not be carried away by the fact that 60 per cent of all the families belonging to backward communities, scheduled castes and tribes,are poor and middle peasants with less than 2.5 acres. For the success of the working-class movement, it is crucial not only to enlist support of the 14 per cent well-to-do strata which belong to backward communities, but also to forge unity with the poor and middle peasants, while seeking to win over or at least to neutralize the better-off sections in the dominant communites. CLASS DIFFERENTIATION A study of table III reveals a clear demarcation of the village peasantry along the following lines: Landlords Those who do not physically participate in major agricultural operations in this village correspond to those who own more than seven acres of (converted) wet land. There are 22 such families. However,