This book is the outcome of intensive fieldwork of Anwarullah Chowdhury in Meherpur, a village in Dacca district. The author discusses the social life in the village with a focus on its social stratification pattern. The present study shows that the village is stratified from three dimensions, namely, class, status and power. The classes are based on the basis of ownership and nonownership of land. The Hindu caste and Muslim status groups are arranged hierarchilcally on the basis of high and low status and the village is again stratified on the basis of unequal distribution of power. The classes roughly correspond to the status and power groups. It also deals with the social changes that this rural community had undergone in the 20th century.
