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The rural gentries constituted a privileged and politically powerful group, whose power over the peasants rested in land ownership.
From resistance to collective action in a Shanghai socialist "model ... by Ho, Wing Chung / Journal of Social History
Or ethnic violence is simply disguised class violence, an instrument used by newly emerging classes, often the bourgeoisie and the middle classes, to displace from power and status older landed gentries.
Ethnicity, nationalism and violence in South Asia by Mehta, Pratap Bhanu / Pacific Affairs
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