PANCHAYATCRIMINAL justice, Administration ofCRIMINAL justice personnelEQUALITYMULTICULTURALISMSTATUS inconsistencySOCIAL classesSOCIAL conflictThis study examines the impact of modernization on India's panchayats (village courts) and the police. Because of modernization, people's attachment to groups and caste ...