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The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh

1896

Nesfield's account of the Musahars however interesting and complete must be accepted so far with caution as he seems to have included among them the aggregate of the Drvidian tribes who inhabit the Vindhya-Kaimfir plateau and the valley of the Son with the hill country to the South of that river. [...] Nesfield notes that the horse is a tabooed animal to the genuine Musahar as the ass is to the Dom the dog to the Bawariya the sheep to the Kharriyas of Manbham and the pig to the Musalmin.' 2. Mr. [...] Thus on the mother's side the prohibition goes back to only one generation and on the father's to two." On the other hand among the more Hinduised endogamous sub-castes the Dhuriya and Jaiswar in Mirzapur the rule appears to be that the descendants of the maternal grandfather (mina) and that of the father's sister's husband (pkilpha) are barred. [...] The bridegroom at the actual service marks the ploughshare fixed in the middle of the marriage shed with red lead and then applies it to the parting of the bride's hair. [...] The rice paste has been eaten ; the youth and girl are married ; hurrah ' What gives the binding force in the first ceremony is the joining of hands while the groom breaking the eggs and the formal reception inside the bridegroom's house or hut the deduetio in donzum as the Romans would have called it form a parallel ceremony of their own.
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Pages
522
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146151
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Frontmatter
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The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh
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Caste Index
429-516 W. Crooke view

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