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What is Patron's Clint Relationship?

Rural economy mostly based on land. Most of the rural power, income earning classes sells their land to the buyers. Between these two classes their develops a special relationship which is known as patron clint relationship. Most often sellers and buyers are close neighbors on relatives also. In very many case the many standard type of relationship is of a patron clint type. Listed below as a limited set of factors which are crucial for the emergence of these patron client relationships.
  1. Multiple inheritance system wills many heirs to one estate.
  2. Individual property right to loan.
  3. Scarcity of land and unequal distribution of land.
  4. Scarcity of employment and other sources of livelihood.
  5. Need for political and physical protection.
  6. Look of access to resources mode available by government for the rural areas
Above various economic and political factors which contribute to make people for establishing patron client relationships in their daily struggle for survival.

Patron client relationships imply a difference of rank between people. When people meet for the first time they commonly attempt to establish relative rank. The basis on which, they established line, age, education and age difference. 

The person who in accorded the higher rank has the right to expect respected behavior. Respected behavior is expressed and ritualized in many ways. There are elaborate rules, developed during centuries of what constitute polite and proper behavior towards a person who both practices agree to, in accorded the higher state.

Patron Client: To analysis rural power structure patron client relationship is necessary. English word ‘patron’ comes from Spanish word “Patron” that means powerful, command post people may be patron. Patron help them who is weak than him. This helps provide any one’s working facility, any entrepreneurship on intuitions. Therefore, it may be provide religious support. The saint Muslim is provided these types of help. And for this they get material elements, loyalty and political support or other help. This patron client relationship may be written or viva contact. In Bangladesh this type of relation is primitive but in feudal society it is very popular (Europe, Japan).

Patron client relationship spread that type of society where inequality economic resource, political power distribute inequality. 

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