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Volume : V, Issue : III, April - 2015 ELITES: A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT Jayanta Kumar Panda, None By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The word ‘elite’ owes its origin to a Latin word ‘Elira’, which means ‘to elect’. Initially the term was in vogue in ecclesiastical circles. The Christian hierarchy was elected through a distinct process in which the priests used to exercise their choice. Later on, however, the word came to be used to differentiate commodities of particular excellence. From the market place, the usage later on shifted and extended to special social groups such as crack military, higher ranks of mobility, the land lords, the barons, etc. who used to form politically potent circles around the monarch. Keywords : Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'.
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