Power Brokers in a Punjabi Village: A Case Study of Power Manifestation
The purpose of paper was to study the role of power brokers in the Punjabi community to see how they replaced the cult ural institution of leadership in the name of deraydar. The paper tr i s to bring forth the factors that made these power brokers influenti al and how did the traditional leader faded away from the cultural life of the villages. The paper also describes the sources of p ower that these brokers enjoy at local level and the manipulative s trategies that are consciously held to maintain the social control thr ough reciprocity towards group allies and coercive tactics towards t he opponents. The paper also discusses political set up of the vi llage to see how political set up revolves around the pressure group s of village. How are these formed as the source of power due to whic h ea h group tried to manipulate benefits using its political in fluence, links, and relationships, etc. The study also looks into how t hese politically influential groups try to over throw their opponent groups.