Table A7.1 offers the class composition of each caste group in rural Maharashtra. Evident in the table, the majority of households among the SCs and STs belong to the labouring households (60.62 per cent of SC and 52.79 per cent of ST households). This is much higher than the average percentage of the average population in the labouring classes in rural Maharashtra. Furthermore, almost 55 per cent of Brahmins and 44 per cent of Forward Castes in rural Maharashtra belong to the three categories of the rural middle classes, while only almost 8 per cent of SCs and 11.72 per cent of STs in all rural Maharashtra belong to the three categories of the middle classes. This is illustrative of caste disparities in class membership in rural Maharashtra, with the middle and the upper classes consisting primarily of the upper castes, which is consistent with findings on caste disparities in class formation in rural All-India, illustrated in Chapter 4. It is notable that due to a low population (Frequency) of Brahmin households in rural Maharashtra in the survey, the absence of Brahmin households in the top two classes is not statistically conclusive.