id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 41424 Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane) The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 .txt text/plain 231276 13449 77 Adult marriage is the general rule of the caste and a fixed bride-price Their septs are of the usual low-caste type, being named after animals, The Raj-Gonds rank with the Hindu cultivating castes, sword seven times round the marriage-post with the bride and placed the animal with rice, and saying to the dead man's spirit, 'Your sonor brother-in-law has given you this.' Sometimes the rule is that the Gonds will not eat the leavings of any Hindu caste, probably on account Very few Hindu castes will take water or food from the Gonds, children of a Gond woman by a man of another caste. respectable caste and worship the Gond gods, [115] and there seems or family names of the caste are also taken from the Gonds, and this The marriage customs of the caste follow the ordinary Hindu ritual the lower Hindu castes and the Gonds at the present time. ./cache/41424.txt ./txt/41424.txt