Caste Complications in Agrarian Conflict Tilak D Gupta In rural Bihar the economic deprivation of the labouring classes is as a rule compounded by social oppression, A typical victim of the dual burden of class and caste exploitation is not only landless, hungry and destitute. He or she also does not have any 'izzat'. This may provide a clue to the Bara massacre in which 37 people were hacked to death in February this year.