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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... carry the proposal of marriage from the boy's father , and the girl's father , being forewarned , sends others to meet them . One of the ambassadors opens the conversation by saying , ' We have the milk and you have the milk - pail ...
... carry the proposal of marriage from the boy's father , and the girl's father , being forewarned , sends others to meet them . One of the ambassadors opens the conversation by saying , ' We have the milk and you have the milk - pail ...
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... carry traces of the peculiar smell of these animals . This is exemplified in the saying , ' Ek to Gadaria , dusre lahsan khae , ' or ' Firstly she is a Gadaria and then she has eaten garlic ' ; the inference being that she is far indeed ...
... carry traces of the peculiar smell of these animals . This is exemplified in the saying , ' Ek to Gadaria , dusre lahsan khae , ' or ' Firstly she is a Gadaria and then she has eaten garlic ' ; the inference being that she is far indeed ...
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... carry , so he folds his kammal into a thick pad and puts it on the top of his head . Anon he feels tired , so he lays down his load , and arranging his kammal as a cushion , sits with comfort on a rugged rock or a stony bank , and has a ...
... carry , so he folds his kammal into a thick pad and puts it on the top of his head . Anon he feels tired , so he lays down his load , and arranging his kammal as a cushion , sits with comfort on a rugged rock or a stony bank , and has a ...
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... carry a circlet round their forehead of the seeds of kusa grass threaded on a string . Both men and women wear enormous earrings , the men having three in each ear . The Gadbas are almost omnivorous , and eat flesh , fish , fowls , pork ...
... carry a circlet round their forehead of the seeds of kusa grass threaded on a string . Both men and women wear enormous earrings , the men having three in each ear . The Gadbas are almost omnivorous , and eat flesh , fish , fowls , pork ...
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... carried off by a tiger , and they offer a goat to him at their weddings . They observe the Hindu fasts and festivals , and at Dasahra worship their musical instruments and the weaver's loom . Being impure , they do not revere the tulsi ...
... carried off by a tiger , and they offer a goat to him at their weddings . They observe the Hindu fasts and festivals , and at Dasahra worship their musical instruments and the weaver's loom . Being impure , they do not revere the tulsi ...
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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