Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) and Gaetano Mosca (1858-1941) are the two pioneer social scientists who propounded the elite theory of power. Pareto, who made popular the concept of elite (it is usually said that idea of elite was derived by Mosca), said, ‘so let us make a class of people who have the highest indices in their branch of activity and to that class give the name of elite’. So we get two strata in a population: (a) a lower stratum—the non-elite (common men), and (b) an upper stratum—the elite.