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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... brothers and sisters . members of the caste who have become Kabīrpanthis may also marry with the others . Marriages may be infant or adult . A girl who is seduced by a member of the caste is married to him by a simple ceremony , the ...
... brothers and sisters . members of the caste who have become Kabīrpanthis may also marry with the others . Marriages may be infant or adult . A girl who is seduced by a member of the caste is married to him by a simple ceremony , the ...
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... brothers and sisters , and this is considered as equivalent to the real relationship . But the marriage of a brother's son to a sister's daughter is held , as among the Gonds , to be a most suitable union . The adult marriage of girls ...
... brothers and sisters , and this is considered as equivalent to the real relationship . But the marriage of a brother's son to a sister's daughter is held , as among the Gonds , to be a most suitable union . The adult marriage of girls ...
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... brother of the great Harsha Vardhana , and slew the latter king in A.D. 605. But Mr. V. A. Smith holds that Gauda in this passage refers to Bengal and not to the Central Provinces ; and General Cunningham's argument on the locality of ...
... brother of the great Harsha Vardhana , and slew the latter king in A.D. 605. But Mr. V. A. Smith holds that Gauda in this passage refers to Bengal and not to the Central Provinces ; and General Cunningham's argument on the locality of ...
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... brother . They ate only animals . Lingo asked them to find for him an animal without a liver , and they searched all through the forest and could not . Then Lingo told them to cut down trees and make a field . They tried to cut down the ...
... brother . They ate only animals . Lingo asked them to find for him an animal without a liver , and they searched all through the forest and could not . Then Lingo told them to cut down trees and make a field . They tried to cut down the ...
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... brothers how to track them by the few marks which they had by accident made on the ground . They did so , and surrounded the nilgai and killed them all with their bows and arrows except the old uncle , from whom Lingo's arrow rebounded ...
... brothers how to track them by the few marks which they had by accident made on the ground . They did so , and surrounded the nilgai and killed them all with their bows and arrows except the old uncle , from whom Lingo's arrow rebounded ...
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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