The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India: pt. II. Descriptive articles on the principal castes and tribes of the Central ProvincesMacmillan and Company, 1916 - Caste |
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... Khonds , and discusses the Patradias as follows : - " The group seems also to include the descendants of Pans , who sold themselves as slaves or were sold as Merias or victims to the Khonds . We know that an extensive 1 Risley , Tribes ...
... Khonds , and discusses the Patradias as follows : - " The group seems also to include the descendants of Pans , who sold themselves as slaves or were sold as Merias or victims to the Khonds . We know that an extensive 1 Risley , Tribes ...
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... Khond country , and that the Pāns were the agents who sometimes purchased , but more frequently kidnapped , the children , whom they sold to the Khonds , and were so debased that they occasionally sold their own offspring , though they ...
... Khond country , and that the Pāns were the agents who sometimes purchased , but more frequently kidnapped , the children , whom they sold to the Khonds , and were so debased that they occasionally sold their own offspring , though they ...
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... Khonds and other primitive tribes , and may be taken as a reminiscence among the Gandas of their former life in the forests . The remarriage of widows is permitted , and the younger brother of the deceased husband takes his widow if he ...
... Khonds and other primitive tribes , and may be taken as a reminiscence among the Gandas of their former life in the forests . The remarriage of widows is permitted , and the younger brother of the deceased husband takes his widow if he ...
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... Khonds call themselves Ku , which word Sir G. Grierson considers to be probably related to the Gond name Koi . Further , he states that the Telugu people call the Khonds , Gond or Kod ( Kor ) . General Cunningham points out that the ...
... Khonds call themselves Ku , which word Sir G. Grierson considers to be probably related to the Gond name Koi . Further , he states that the Telugu people call the Khonds , Gond or Kod ( Kor ) . General Cunningham points out that the ...
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... Khonds and Gonds may originally have been one tribe . Further , Mr. Hislop points out that a word for god , pen , is common to the Gonds and Khonds ; and the Khonds have a god called Bura Pen , who might be the same as Bura Deo , the ...
... Khonds and Gonds may originally have been one tribe . Further , Mr. Hislop points out that a word for god , pen , is common to the Gonds and Khonds ; and the Khonds have a god called Bura Pen , who might be the same as Bura Deo , the ...
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Common terms and phrases
ancestors animals Baiga bangles Bania Bastar Bengal Berar Bhumka Bihār body Brahmans bride bridegroom brother buried called Central Provinces ceremony Chanda Chhattisgarh child Chota Nagpur cloth considered cooked cultivators customs dance daughter dead deity derived Dhangars Districts Divorce Dravidian drink exogamous father feast festival flesh forest Gadaria girl give goat goddess gods Gonds Gosains Gowāris Gujarāt Gūjars hair Halbas head Hindu husband Ibidem impure India Jāts Jogis Kalārs Kanjars Kawars Kayasths Kharias Khatris Khonds killed known Kolis Kols Korkus Korwas Koshtis Kunbis Lingo liquor Mahādeo mahua Mandla Maratha marriage married months moon Muhammadan Munda nakshatras occupation offered origin panchayat persons priest probably Rāja Rājpūts rice rites round rupees sacred sacrifice Sambalpur sept Siva social spirit subcastes take food tattooed Telugu tiger tree Tribes and Castes turmeric usually village wedding widow wife woman women worship