This Paper attempt to study the process of social mobility among the ‘Telis’ of Jammu city, a social backward Muslim caste of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The Telis is one of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) which is identified under ‘Weak and Unprivileged’ category in the state. Introduction Social Mobility thus refers to the movement usually of individuals but sometimes of a whole group between different positions within the system of social stratification in any society. It is conventional to distinguish upward and downward mobility (that is, movement up or down a hierarchy of privilege) and intergenerational from intragenerational or career mobility, the former referring to mobility between a family of origin and one’s own class or status position, the latter to the mobility experienced during an individual career, such as respondent’s first job compared to his or her present job.