SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF WOMEN IN GANIGA COMMUNITY

Abstract

            The time has come where both in the developing and advanced countries there is a need to study the factors which retard or accelerate social change In the developing countries overweighed with age-old and unexamined traditions with the attendant consequences of confusion and cultural inertia it 1s imperative that scientific study be directed to the problem of social change In India, we are presently passing through a crucial period of social change as never before Old social order is being challenged by the new modes of life. Serious efforts to study the Ganiga community have not been made so far. The community which has been traditionally following the oil squeezing occupation has changed over to different occupations because of the changes that have been coming out in society. Significantly large population of Ganigas is concentrated in Karnataka and hence the need was felt to study the community and various changes which are affecting this community. The Ganiga community is treated as backward class, by the State which enjoys certain benefits sanctioned by the State and Central Government. in general the word backward class includes several communities based on certain criteria and are given certain benefits by the state.