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by R.V. Russell.
PREFACE
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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India.
by R.V. Russell.
PREFACE
This book is the result of the arrangement made by the Government of India, on the suggestion of the late Sir Herbert Risley, for the preparation of an ethnological account
- 301 4. Religion As the priests of the Gonds, the Pardhans are employed to conduct the ceremonial wors.h.i.+p of their great G.o.d Bura Deo, which takes place on the third day of the bright fortnight of Baisakh (April). Many goats or pigs are then offered to h
- 302 8. Hunting with leopards The manner in which the Chita Pardhis use the hunting leopard (_Felis jubata_) for catching deer has often been described. [413] The leopard is caught full-grown by a noose in the manner related above. Its neck is first clasped in
- 303 5. Nuptial ceremony The marriage takes place at the boy's house, where two marriage-sheds are made. It is noticeable that the bride on going to the bridegroom's house to be married is accompanied only by her female relatives, no man of her famil
- 304 7. Criminal tendencies Eighty years ago, when General Sleeman wrote, the Pasis were noted thieves. In his _Journey through Oudh_ [433] he states that in Oudh there were then supposed to be one hundred thousand families of Pasis, who were skilful thieves a
- 305 8. The existing Pindaris While the freebooting Pindaris had no regular caste organisation, their descendants have now become more or less of a caste in accordance with the usual tendency of a distinctive occupation, producing a difference in status, to fo
- 306 Rajput [The following article is based mainly on Colonel Tod's cla.s.sical _Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan_, 2nd ed., Madras, Higginbotham, 1873, and Mr. Crooke's articles on the Rajput clans in his _Tribes and Castes of the North-Western P
- 307 27. Badgujar.28. Sengar.29. Sikarwal.30. Bais.31. Dahia.32. Johia.33. Mohil.34. Nik.u.mbh.35. Rajpali.36. Dahima.And two extra, Hul and Daharia.Several of the above races are extinct or nearly so, and on the other hand some very important modern clans, as
- 308 Women are strictly secluded by the Rajputs, especially in Upper India, but this practice does not appear to have been customary in ancient times, and it would be interesting to know whether it has been copied from the Muhammadans. It is said that a good R
- 309 Rajput, Dhakar _Rajput, Dhakar_.--In the Central Provinces this term has the meaning of one of illegitimate descent, and it is often used by the Kirars, who are probably of mixed descent from Rajputs. In northern India, however, the Dhakars are a clan of
- 310 In 1614 Rana Amar Singh, recognising that further opposition was hopeless, made his submission to the emperor, on the condition that he should never have to present himself in person but might send his two sons in his place. This stipulation being accepte
- 311 The art of the Rangrez differs considerably from that of the Chhipa or Rangari, the Hindu dyer, and he produces a much greater variety of colours. His princ.i.p.al agents were formerly the safflower (_Carthamus tinctorius_), turmeric and myrobalans. The f
- 312 The Sansias say that their ancestors have always resided in Marwar and Ajmer. About twenty-four miles distant from Ajmer are two towns, Pisangan and Sagun; on their eastern side is a large tank, and the bones of all persons of the Sansia tribe who died in
- 313 3. _Tribal subdivisions_.4. _Marriage_.5. _Death ceremonies_.6. _Religion_.7. _Occupation_.1. Distribution and historical notices _Savar, [626] Sawara, Savara, Saonr, Sahra_ (and several other variations. In Bundelkhand the Savars, there called Saonrs, ar
- 314 At child-birth they make a little separate hut for the mother near the river where they are encamped, and she remains in it for two days and a half. During this time her husband does no work; he stays a few paces distant from his wife's hut and prepa
- 315 The more ambitious members of the caste abjure all flesh and liquor, and wear the sacred thread. These will not take cooked food even from a Brahman. Others do not observe these restrictions. Brahmans will usually take water from Sunars, especially from t
- 316 1. The Tamera and Kasar _Tamera, Tambatkar_. [663]--The professional caste of coppersmiths, the name being derived from _tamba_, copper. The Tameras, however, like the Kasars or bra.s.s-workers, use copper, bra.s.s and bell-metal indifferently, and in the
- 317 8. Driving out evil Here on the third day after the Pola festival in the rains the women of the caste bring the branches of a th.o.r.n.y creeper, with very small leaves, and call it Marbod, and sweep out the whole house with it, saying: 'Ira, pira, khatk
- 318 12. _Belief in divine support_.13. _Theory of Thuggee as a religious sect_.14. _Wors.h.i.+p of Kali_.15. _The sacred pickaxe_.16. _The sacred gur (sugar)_.17. _Wors.h.i.+p of ancestors_.18. _Fasting_.19. _Initiation of a novice_.20. _Prohibition of murder
- 319 11. Callous nature of the Thugs Like the Badhaks and other Indian robbers and the Italian banditti the Thugs were of a very religious or superst.i.tious turn of mind. There was not one among them, Colonel Sleeman wrote, [698] who doubted the divine origin
- 320 24. Nature of the belief in omens The custom of the Thugs, and in a less degree of ignorant and primitive races generally, of being guided in their every action by the chance indications afforded from the voices and movements of birds and animals appears
- 321 Vidur List of Paragraphs 1. _Origin and traditions_.2. _The Purads, Golaks and Borals_.3. _Illegitimacy among Hindustani castes_.4. _Legend of origin_.5. _Marriage_.6. _Social rules and occupation_.1. Origin and traditions _Vidur, [716] Bidur_.--A Maratha
- 322 [9] _Orpheus_, p. 152.[10] The sacrifice is now falling into abeyance, as landowners refuse to supply the buffalo.[11] Dr. Jevons, _Introduction to the History of Religion_, p. 368.[12] _Vide_ article on Lakhera.[13] _Rasmala_, i. p. 100.[14] _Ibidem_, p.
- 323 [59] 2 lbs. [60] Elliot, _Hoshangabad Settlement Report_, p. 115. [61] The custom is pointed out by Mr. A. K. Smith, C.S. [62] _Central Provinces Census Report_ (1911), p. 153. [63] _C.P. Census Report_ (1911), p. 153. [64] Or his big toe. [65] _C.P. Cens
- 324 [109] This article is partly based on papers by Mr. P.B. Telang, Munsiff Seoni-Malwa, and Mr. Waman Rao Mandloi, naib-tahsildar, Harda.[110] This derivation is also negatived by the fact that the name Maharatta was known in the third century B.C., or long
- 325 [159] _Ibidem_, para. 484.[160] _Balaghat District Gazetteer_, para. 59.[161] Mr. Napier's _Bhandara Settlement Report_, quoted in article on Kohli.[162] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Mali.[163] _Brief View of the Caste System_, p. 15.[164] _La Cit
- 326 [209] _Satara Gazetteer_, p. 64.[210] _Ibidem_, p. 75.[211] _Bombay Census Report_ (1907), _ibidem_.[212] _Letter on the Marathas_ (India Office Tracts).[213] _Satara Gazetteer_, p. 75.[214] Grant-Duff, 4th edition (1878), vol. i. pp. 70-72.[215] Forsyth,
- 327 [259] Cunningham's _Archaeological Survey Reports_, xx. p. 24.[260] _Ibidem_.[261] General Cunningham's enumeration of the _pals_ is as follows: Five Jadon clans--Chhirkilta, Dalat, Dermot, Nai, Pundelot; five Tuar clans--Balot, Darwar, Kalesa,
- 328 [309] S.C. Roy, _The Mundas and their Country_, p. 369.[310] W. Kirkpatrick in _J.A.S.B._, July 1911, p. 438.[311] _Golden Bough_, 3rd ed. vol. viii. p. 153.[312] _G.B._, 3rd ed., _Balder the Beautiful_, vol. ii. p. 103.[313] Dr. Jevons, _Introduction to
- 329 [359] _Ethnography_, p. 248.[360] _Tribes and Castes_, vol. ii. p. 141.[361] Panna Lal, Revenue Inspector.[362] _Sorghum halepense_.[363] _Sh.o.r.ea robusta_.[364] In Bilaspur the men have an iron comb in the hair with a circular end and two p.r.o.ngs lik
- 330 [409] _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 135.[410] _Bombay Ethnographic Survey_, art. Pardhi.[411] _Jungle Life in India_, pp. 586-587.[412] _Peasant Life in Bihar_, p. 80.[413] See Jerdon's _Mammals of India_, p, 97. The account there given is quoted
- 331 [458] Kitts' _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 157.[459] About 400 lbs.[460] _Early History of India_ (Oxford, Clarendon Press), 3rd edition, p. 414.[461] _Early History of India_, pp. 252, 254.[462] _Ibidem_, p. 210.[463] _Ibidem_, p. 227.[464] Colon
- 332 [508] Mr. Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Chandel.[509] Sherring's _Castes and Tribes_, i. pp. 359, 360.[510] _Supplemental Glossary_, art. Bhar.[511] See art. Pasi.[512] Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Chandel.[513] _Ibidem_.[514] _J
- 333 [558] Mr. Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Parihar.[559] _Early History of India_, 3rd edition, p. 389.[560] _Ibidem_, p. 413.[561] _Imperial Gazetteer_, art. Bali.[562] _Rajasthan_, ii. pp. 16, 17.[563] _Ibidem_, i. p. 81.[564] _Ibidem_, ii. p. 37
- 334 [608] _Ibidem_, p. 254.[609] Sir D. Ibbetson, _Punjab Census Report_ (1881), para. 577.[610] P. 259.[611] The description of a dacoity is combined from two accounts given at pp. 257, 273 of Colonel Sleeman's _Report_.[612] _Sorghum vulgare_.[613] Mad
- 335 [658] Temple and Fallon's _Hindustani Proverbs._ [659] _Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat,_ pp. 199, 200.[660] Pandian's _Indian Village Folk_, p. 41.[661] This article is compiled from a paper by Mr. D. Mitra, pleader, Sambalpur.[662] _Madras Census
- 336 [708] Sleeman, p. 196. [709] P. 91. [710] P. 67. [711] P. 100. [712] _Orpheus_ (M. Salomon Reinach), p. 316. [713] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Turi. [714] _North Arcot Manual_, i. p. 216. [715] _Indian Antiquary_ (1879), p. 216. [716] This article