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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... months , and will be kept continually on the move from field to field for a month at a time . It is usual to hire flocks at the rate of one rupee a hundred head for one night ; but sometimes the cultivators combine to buy a large flock ...
... months , and will be kept continually on the move from field to field for a month at a time . It is usual to hire flocks at the rate of one rupee a hundred head for one night ; but sometimes the cultivators combine to buy a large flock ...
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... months of Shrawan , Bhādon or Kunwār , nor during the dark fortnight of the month , nor on a Saturday or Tuesday . The marriage- post is of the wood of the mahua tree , and beneath it are placed seven cowries and seven pieces of ...
... months of Shrawan , Bhādon or Kunwār , nor during the dark fortnight of the month , nor on a Saturday or Tuesday . The marriage- post is of the wood of the mahua tree , and beneath it are placed seven cowries and seven pieces of ...
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... months afterwards return to visit the bride's parents , when they are treated as outsiders and not allowed to touch the food cooked for the family , while they reciprocally insist on preparing their own . Male Gaurias will take food ...
... months afterwards return to visit the bride's parents , when they are treated as outsiders and not allowed to touch the food cooked for the family , while they reciprocally insist on preparing their own . Male Gaurias will take food ...
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... months of Shrawan , Bhādon , Kunwār and Pūs . The marriage altar is made of dried cowdung plastered over with mud , in honour perhaps of the animal which affords the Golars their liveli- hood . The clothes of the bridegroom and bride ...
... months of Shrawan , Bhādon , Kunwār and Pūs . The marriage altar is made of dried cowdung plastered over with mud , in honour perhaps of the animal which affords the Golars their liveli- hood . The clothes of the bridegroom and bride ...
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... months together ; They did not wash their faces properly , even on dunghills they would fall down and remain . Such were the Gonds born in the beginning . A smell was spread over the jungle When the Gonds were thus disorderly behaved ...
... months together ; They did not wash their faces properly , even on dunghills they would fall down and remain . Such were the Gonds born in the beginning . A smell was spread over the jungle When the Gonds were thus disorderly behaved ...
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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