November 13, 1976 small peasants in the state, The cabi-- net, the zilla parishads and the cooperative organisations in the state have been manned by the representatives of big landlords and rich pea- Bants, an arrangement that has been in existence since 1957 when Y B Chavan became the chief minister of the bilingual Bombay state. The consolidation of the arrangement began in earnest after 1960 when unilingual Maharashtra came into being.