Seating arrangement as class structure
Read the passenger vehicle as a diagram of social hierarchy. Watching who rides and who pulls shows power as a physical, daily arrangement, not just an abstraction in speeches or institutions.
Ulaar
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Elections circulate around the poor, not to them
Electoral politics in the Tarai uses the labouring poor as infrastructure and audience: they carry the candidates, fill the crowds and cast the votes. The material gains of the process go to the political class.
Ulaar: tipping from unbalanced load
The title word is commonly glossed as a cart tipping over backward when its load sits unevenly. The book uses this as a model of society: when the weight is concentrated on those who carry, and the riders take no responsibility for balance, the whole vehicle is at risk of overturning. The instability comes from how the load is distributed, not from any single passenger's weight.