November 11, 1967 the heirarchy of power in town and village. Some such pattern, with local variations, is visible in Bihar too. Madhya Pradesh, the most recent of the so-called non-Congress coalitions to come to power, is uneasy what with the Rajmata acting as an autocratic chieftain behind the scenes. Any Congress-backed coalition, if it wants to survive, will have to be more principled in its system of alliances.