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... persons . Marriages are con- tracted without the intervention of a Pandit , and with the rites in use among other low castes , such as Koris and Chamârs . With a magnificent assumption of rights not recognised by our law , a bride's ...
... persons . Marriages are con- tracted without the intervention of a Pandit , and with the rites in use among other low castes , such as Koris and Chamârs . With a magnificent assumption of rights not recognised by our law , a bride's ...
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... persons ; and worshippers of these two different deities are said usually not to intermarry . In Bareilly their tribal godling is Chanda Kartâl , of whom nothing appears to be known . In Bânda and Fatehpur they are said to be generally ...
... persons ; and worshippers of these two different deities are said usually not to intermarry . In Bareilly their tribal godling is Chanda Kartâl , of whom nothing appears to be known . In Bânda and Fatehpur they are said to be generally ...
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... person , which was admitted in Western India towards the end of the last century , makes rather for Mr. Nesfield's view than for mine ; while the theory of Roth and Zimmer , that the first germ of the Brâhman caste is to be sought in ...
... person , which was admitted in Western India towards the end of the last century , makes rather for Mr. Nesfield's view than for mine ; while the theory of Roth and Zimmer , that the first germ of the Brâhman caste is to be sought in ...
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... persons have recorded themselves as exclusive worshippers of Mahâbîr ; but this is made up for by 937,493 worshippers of Hanumân . Sârda is a corruption of the name of the goddess Saraswati , the patroness of learning ; she is not ...
... persons have recorded themselves as exclusive worshippers of Mahâbîr ; but this is made up for by 937,493 worshippers of Hanumân . Sârda is a corruption of the name of the goddess Saraswati , the patroness of learning ; she is not ...
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... person , form a pleasing contrast to the women in their brightly - coloured garments , with large conical caps adorned with gold and silver chains and small bells , from which is pendant a light richly - coloured scarf hanging ...
... person , form a pleasing contrast to the women in their brightly - coloured garments , with large conical caps adorned with gold and silver chains and small bells , from which is pendant a light richly - coloured scarf hanging ...
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according Agra Aligarh Allahâbâd ancestors Azamgarh Bahrâich Baiga Ballia Bânda Banyas Bareilly Basti Benares Bhars Bhâts Bhatti Bhuînhârs Bhuiyas Bihâr Bijnor Bishnois Brâhmans bride bridegroom brother Bulandshahr called Cawnpur Census Census of 1891 ceremony Chamâr Chauhân child clansmen clothes cremation daughter dead deceased Dehra deity descendants Devi Dhobi Distribution DISTRICTS Doms endogamous Etah Etawah exogamy Faizâbâd Farrukhâbâd Fatehpur father feast Ganges Gaur Ghazipur girl give goat Gonda Gonds Gorakhpur gotra grain Gûjars Hamirpur Hardoi Hindu husband intermarry Jaunpur Jhânsi Kanaujiya Kheri known Lalitpur last Census levirate Lucknow Magahiya Mainpuri marriage marry Mathura Meerut Mirzapur Morâdâbâd mother Muhammadan Musalmân Muzaffarnagar Number offering origin Oudh Panjâb Partâbgarh Pilibhit priest Provinces Râê Bareli Râja Râjputs Râthaur rice Risley rule rupees sacrifice Saharanpur sept Shahjahanpur Sitapur spirits sub-castes Sultanpur Tarâi TOTAL tribal council Tribes and Castes Unâo usual village widow wife woman women worship
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Side 85 - Africa a man may have as many wives as he can afford to buy. But...
Side 490 - She burnt herself to death, and in dying imprecated the most fearful curses on the Hayobans race. After this tragedy the clan left...
Side 437 - At the present day the Gujars are found in great numbers in every part of the north-west of India, from the Indus to the Ganges, and from the Hazara Mountains to the Peninsula of Gujarat. They are specially numerous along the banks of the Upper Jumna near Jagadri and Buriya, and in the Saharanpur District, which during the last century was actually called Gujarat.
Side 311 - one of the original tribes of India. Tradition fixes their residence to the north of the Ghagra, touching the Bhars on the east in the vicinity of the Rohini. Several old forts testify...
Side 157 - ... child is born, named, betrothed, or married ; nobody dies or is burnt ; no journey is undertaken, or auspicious day selected ; no house is built, no agricultural operation of importance begun, or harvest gathered in, without the Brahmans being...
Side 121 - ... living creature, but they do their utmost to prevent others from doing so. Consequently their villages are generally swarming with antelope and other animals, and they forbid their Musalman neighbours to kill them, and try to dissuade European sportsmen from interfering with them. They wanted...
Side 122 - The novice's scalp-lock (choti) is then cut off and his head shaved, for the Bishnois shave the whole head and do not leave a scalp-lock like the Hindus, but they allow the beard to grow, only shaving the chin on the father's death. Infant baptism is also practised, and thirty days after birth the child, whether boy or girl, is baptised by the priest...
Side 430 - India, 156. nor, again, bevies of Gond women may be seen who are liker monkeys than human beings. The features of all are strongly marked and coarse. The girls occasionally possess such comeliness as attaches to general plumpness and a good-humoured expression of face; but when their short youth is over, all pass at once into a hideous age. Their hard lives, sharing as they do all the labours of the men, except that of hunting, suffice to account for this.
Side 375 - heavenly Gandharva ' of the Veda was a deity who knew and revealed the secrets of heaven and divine truths in general He is thought by Goldstiicker to have been a personification of the fire of the sun. The Gandharvas generally had their dwelling in the sky or atmosphere, and one of their offices was to prepare the heavenly soma juice for the gods. They had a great partiality for women, and had a mystic power over them. The Atharva-veda speaks of
Side 141 - ... kavi, etc., and have denoted devout worshippers and contemplative sages who composed prayers and hymns which they themselves recited in praise of the gods. Afterwards, when the ceremonial gradually became more complicated, and a division of sacred functions took place, the word was more ordinarily employed (2) for a minister of, public worship, and at length came to signify (3) one particular kind of priest with special duties.