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- The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
- Published Under the Orders of the Central Provinces Administration In Four Volumes Vol. I. Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin’s Street, London. 1916
- Preface
- Contents
- Detailed List of Contents
- Maps and Illustrations
- Maps
- Illustrations
- Pronunciation
- Part I.
- Introductory Essay on Caste
- Introductory Essay on Caste
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. The Central Provinces.
- 2. Constitution of the population.
- 3. The word ‘Caste.’
- 4. The meaning of the term ‘Caste.’
- 5. The subcaste.
- 6. Confusion of nomenclature.
- 7. Tests of what a caste is.
- 8. The four traditional castes.
- 9. Occupational theory of caste.
- 10. Racial Theory.
- 11. Entry of the Aryans into India. The Aryas and Dasyus.
- 12. The Sūdra.
- 13. The Vaishya.
- 14. Mistaken modern idea of the Vaishyas.
- 15. Mixed unions of the four classes.
- 16. Hypergamy.
- 17. The mixed castes. The village menials.
- 18. Social gradation of castes.
- 19. Castes ranking above the cultivators.
- 20. Castes from whom a Brāhman can take water. Higher agriculturists.
- 21. Status of the cultivator.
- 22. The clan and the village.
- 23. The ownership of land.
- 24. The cultivating status that of the Vaishya.
- 25. Higher professional and artisan castes.
- 26. Castes from whom a Brāhman cannot take water; the village menials.
- 27. The village watchmen.
- 28. The village priests. The gardening castes.
- 29. Other village traders and menials.
- 30. Household servants.
- 31. Status of the village menials.
- 32. Origin of their status
- 33. Other castes who rank with the village menials.
- 34. The non-Aryan tribes.
- 35. The Kolarians and Dravidians.
- 36. Kolarian tribes.
- 37. Dravidian tribes.
- 38. Origin of the Kolarian tribes
- 39. Of the Dravidian tribes.
- 40. Origin of the impure castes.
- 41. Derivation of the impure castes from the indigenous tribes.
- 42. Occupation the basis of the caste system.
- 43. Other agents in the formation of castes.
- 44. Caste occupations divinely ordained.
- 45. Subcastes. local type.
- 46. Occupational subcastes.
- 47. Subcastes formed from social or religious differences, or from mixed descent.
- 48. Exogamous groups.
- 49. Totemistic clans.
- 50. Terms of relationship.
- 51. Clan kinship and totemism.
- 52. Animate Creation.
- 53. The distribution of life over the body.
- 54. Qualities associated with animals.
- 55. Primitive language.
- 56. Concrete nature of primitive ideas.
- 57. Words and names concrete.
- 58. The soul or spirit.
- 59. The tranmission of qualities.
- 60. The faculty of counting. Confusion of the individual and the species.
- 61. Similarity and identity.
- 62. The recurrence of events.
- 63. Controlling the future.
- 64. The common life.
- 65. The common life of the clan.
- 66. Living and eating together.
- 67. The origin of exogamy.
- 68. Promiscuity and female descent.
- 69. Exogamy with female descent.
- 70. Marriage.
- 71. Marriage by capture.
- 72. Transfer of the bride to her husband’s clan.
- 73. The exogamous clan with male descent and the village.
- 74. The large exogamous clans of the Brāhmans and Rājpūts. The Sapindas, the gens and the γένος.
- 75. Comparison of Hindu society with that of Greece and Rome. The gens.
- 76. The clients.
- 77. The plebeians.
- 78. The binding social tie in the city-states.
- 79. The Suovetaurilia.
- 80. The sacrifice of the domestic animal.
- 81. Sacrifices of the gens and phratry.
- 82. The Hindu caste-feasts.
- 83. Taking food at initiation.
- 84. Penalty feasts.
- 85. Sanctity of grain-food.
- 86. The corn-sprit.
- 87. The king.
- 88. Other instances of the common meal as a sacrificial rite.
- 89. Funeral feasts.
- 90. The Hindu deities and the sacrificial meal.
- 91. Development of the occupational caste from the tribe.
- 92. Veneration of the caste implements.
- 93. The caste panchāyat and its code of offences.
- 94. The status of impurity.
- 95. Caste and Hinduism.
- 96. The Hindu reformers.
- 97. Decline of the caste system.
- Articles on Religions and Sects
- Arya Samāj
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. The founder of the sect, Dayānand Sāraswati.
- 2. His methods and the scientific interpretation of the Vedas.
- 3. Tenets of the Samāj.
- 4. Modernising tendencies.
- 5. Aims and educational institutions.
- 6. Prospects of the sect.
- Brahmo Samāj
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Ram Mohan Roy, founder of the sect.
- 2. Much esteemed by the English.
- 3. Foundation of the Brahmo Samāj.
- 4. Debendra Nāth Tagore.
- 5. Keshub Chandar Sen.
- 6. The Civil Marriage Act.
- 7. Keshub Chandar’s relapse into mysticism.
- 8. Recent history of the Samāj.
- 9. Character of the movement.
- Dādupanthi Sect.1
- Dhāmi, Prannāthi Sect.
- Jain Religion
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Numbers and distribution.
- 2. The Jain religion. Its connection with Buddhism.
- 3. The Jain tenets. The Tirthakars.
- 4. The transmigration of souls.
- 5. Strict rules against taking life.
- 6. Jain sects.
- 7. Jain ascetics.
- 8. Jain subcastes of Banias.
- 9. Rules and customs of the laity.
- 10. Connection with Hinduism.
- 11. Temple and car festival.
- 12. Images of the Tirthakārs.
- 13. Religious observances.
- 14. Tenderness for animal life.
- 15. Social condition of the Jains.
- Kabīrpanthi
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Life of Kabīr.
- 2. Kabīr’s teachings.
- 3. His sayings
- 4. The Kabīrpanthi Sect in the Central Provinces.
- 5. The religious service.
- 6. Initiation.
- 7. Funeral rites.
- 8. Idol worship.
- 9. Statistics of the sect.
- Lingāyat Sect
- Muhammadan Religion
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Statistics and distribution.
- 2. Occupations.
- 3. Muhammadan castes.
- 4. The four tribal divisions.
- 5. Marriage.
- 6. Polygamy, divorce and widow-remarriage.
- 7. Devices for procuring children, and beliefs about them.
- 8. Pregnancy rites.
- 9. Childbirth and naming children.
- 10. The Ukīka sacrifice.
- 11. Shaving the hair and ear-piercing.
- 12. Birthdays.
- 13. Circumcision, and maturity of girls.
- 14. Funeral rites.
- 15. Muhammadan sects. Shiah and Sunni.
- 16. Leading religious observances. Prayer.
- 17. The fast of Ramazān.
- 18. The pilgrimage to Mecca.
- 19. Festivals. The Muharram.
- 20. Id-ul-Fitr.
- 21. Id-ul-Zoha
- 22. Mosques.
- 23. The Friday service.
- 24. Priests, Mulla and Maulvi.
- 25. The Kāzi.
- 26. General features of Islām.
- 27. The Korān.
- 28. The Traditions.
- 29. The schools of law.
- 30. Food.
- 31. Dress.
- 32. Social rules. Salutations.
- 33. Customs.
- 34. Position of women.
- 35. Interest on money.
- 36. Muhammadan education.
- Nānakpanthi
- 1. Account of the sect.
- 2. Nānakpanthis in the Central Provinces.
- 3. Udasis.
- 4. Suthra Shāhis.
- Parmārthi Sect
- Pārsi or Zoroastrian Religion
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Introductory.
- 2. The Zoroastrian religion.
- 3. The Zend-Avesta.
- 4. The Zend Avesta and the Vedas.
- 5. Reasons for the schism between the Persian and Indian Aryans.
- 6. The dual principles and the conflict between good and evil.
- 7. The dual principle derived from the antagonism of light and darkness.
- 8. The Zoroastrians in Persia.
- 9. Their migration to India and settlement there.
- 10. Their wealth and prosperity.
- 11. Marriage customs.
- 12. Religion. Worship of fire.
- 13. The Homa liquor.
- 14. Pārsi priests.
- 15. The sacred shirt and cord.
- 16. Disposal of the dead.
- 17. Previous exposure of the dead, and migration of souls.
- 18. Clothes, food and ceremonial observances.
- Saiva, Shaiva, Sivite Sect
- Sākta, Shakta Sect
- Satnāmi
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Origin of the sect.
- 2. Ghāsi Dās, founder of the Satnāmi sect.
- 3. The message of Ghāsi Dās.
- 4. Subsequent history of the Satnāmis.
- 5. Social profligacy.
- 6. Divisions of the Satnāmis.
- 7. Customs of the Satnāmis.
- 8. Character of the Satnāmi movement.
- Sikh Religion
- List of Paragraphs
- 1. Foundation of Sikhism—Bāba Nānak.
- 2. The earlier Gurus.
- 3. Guru Govind Singh.
- 4. Sikh initiation and rules.
- 5. Character of the Nānakpanthis and Sikh sects.
- 6. The Akālis.
- 7. The Sikh Council or Guru-Māta. Their communal meal.
- Smārta Sect
- Swāmi-Nārāyan Sect
- 1. The founder.
- 2. Tenets of the sect.
- 3. Meeting with Bishop Heber.
- 4. Meeting with Governor of Bombay.
- 5. Conclusion.
- Vaishnava, Vishnuite Sect
- 1. Vishnu as representing the sun.
- 2. His incarnations.
- 3. Worship of Vishnu and Vaishnava doctrines.
- Vām-Mārgi, Bām-Mārgi, Vāma-Chari Sect.
- Wahhābi Sect
- Part I
- Glossary of Minor Castes and Other Articles, Synonyms, Subcastes, Titles and Names of Exogamous Septs or Clans
- Glossary
- Subject Index
- Colophon
- Availability
- Encoding
- Revision History
- Corrections
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