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... women bow and cover their faces as they pass it . Social customs . 10. Women are tattooed on the arms . A pig or an ass is re- garded as a lucky meeting omen . Women wear glass bangles ( chúri ) on the wrist , bead necklaces , nose ...
... women bow and cover their faces as they pass it . Social customs . 10. Women are tattooed on the arms . A pig or an ass is re- garded as a lucky meeting omen . Women wear glass bangles ( chúri ) on the wrist , bead necklaces , nose ...
Side 27
... women are as bold , voluble , and ready in retort as the men . When a Bhât woman passes a male caste - fellow on the road , it is the latter who raises a piece of cloth to his face till the woman is out of sight . 10. The Chârans , as ...
... women are as bold , voluble , and ready in retort as the men . When a Bhât woman passes a male caste - fellow on the road , it is the latter who raises a piece of cloth to his face till the woman is out of sight . 10. The Chârans , as ...
Side 30
... women are invariably on foot and distributed along the drove of bullocks , re - loading a beast which may have thrown his pack , or balancing and adjusting another as the case may be . The men with their large , loosely- folded turbans ...
... women are invariably on foot and distributed along the drove of bullocks , re - loading a beast which may have thrown his pack , or balancing and adjusting another as the case may be . The men with their large , loosely- folded turbans ...
Side 34
... women of the former wearing petticoats and the latter drawers . Another tradi- tion , which is apparently based merely on the similarity of name , makes them out to be in some way connected with the Bhatti tribe . In the east of the ...
... women of the former wearing petticoats and the latter drawers . Another tradi- tion , which is apparently based merely on the similarity of name , makes them out to be in some way connected with the Bhatti tribe . In the east of the ...
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... women of the latter bear an indifferent reputation ; in fact it is alleged that they are prostituted both before and after marriage . Dr. Buchanan ' says : - " Many of their women , but by no means the greater part , refuse no favour to ...
... women of the latter bear an indifferent reputation ; in fact it is alleged that they are prostituted both before and after marriage . Dr. Buchanan ' says : - " Many of their women , but by no means the greater part , refuse no favour to ...
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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 Bishnoi Brâhmans bride bridegroom brother Bulandshahr called Cawnpur Census Census of 1891 ceremony Chamâr Chauhân child clansmen clothes cremation daughter dead deceased deity descendants Devi Dhobi Distribution DISTRICTS Doms endogamous Etah Etawah exogamy Faizâbâd Farrukhâbâd Fatehpur father feast Ganges Gaur Gautam Ghazipur girl give goat Gonda Gonds Gorakhpur gotra grain ground Gûjars Hamirpur Hardoi Hindu husband intermarry Jâlaun Jaunpur 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 rite rule rupees sacrifice Saharanpur sept Shahjahanpur Sitapur spirits sub-castes sub-divisions Sultanpur Tarâi 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 449 - 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 319 - 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 441 - 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 387 - 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.