Given the unpredictable nature of agricultural income, farmer A. Mahipal Reddy in Arutla village said his girl child was denied a seat by Johnson Grammar School in Hyderabad and house owners in Champapet refused to even let out their house despite being of the same caste. "Marketing personnel from banks seeking to provide personal loans cut the call as soon as they hear that I am a farmer," he said.
"Caste boycotts can occur if fishermen increase prices, washermen raise charges or Madigas refuse to play drums. When they target a community, the VDC gathers members of the other castes. That is made possible by the hierarchical caste structure. One community oppresses another caste below it in the caste structure, allowing the social order to continue. Even the cheque power that sarpanches exercise over funds in the panchayat were curtailed by making the signature of their deputies usually, from the upper castes, a necessity,” Prof. Sujatha Surepally, Sociology dept, Satavahana University
