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should be located with utmost details in order to study the cultural basis of these various traditions. For this purpose folk songs concerning traditional social customs and rituals should be collected and compiled keeping in view the significance of such materials as original sources. Land registration office and papers relating to the sale and purchase of land should be consulted to locate trends of economic change. The Darbhanga Raj records library may throw some light on the Darbhanga Raj's relation with this village under study. A field work following the oral tradition of the study of migration of these people may unveil many important things compelling them to migrate from one place to another. It is also important that the caste system and feudalism worked side by side in that village. The village panchayat played an important role in imparting justice, but the policy adopted by the village headmen ultimately compelled a few inhabitants to go to the British Court. The details of the land system would be collected. This village in its socio-economic and cultural traditions is really unique to be micro-studied.

Though all the members of a dominant caste are generally said to be on equal footing or at least but some of the poorest and the richest speaking they were not at equal social level, but actually earned their livelihood serving the community for theoretically rich(?) but in theory their livelihood(?)