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Page 159
... marriage and not the final con- summation . There is one Jat girl in Rampur who was married as late as twenty . The ... marriage was never consummated , and who is now a widower at thirty - two.2 There is usually an interval of about ...
... marriage and not the final con- summation . There is one Jat girl in Rampur who was married as late as twenty . The ... marriage was never consummated , and who is now a widower at thirty - two.2 There is usually an interval of about ...
Page 160
... married at the age of thirteen and had the gauna at eighteen . If the latter is not simply an aberrant case , it may suggest a tendency toward earlier marriages . Otherwise , late marriage seems to be characteristic of male Camars ...
... married at the age of thirteen and had the gauna at eighteen . If the latter is not simply an aberrant case , it may suggest a tendency toward earlier marriages . Otherwise , late marriage seems to be characteristic of male Camars ...
Page 161
... marriage into the mother's mother's clan has been relaxed . ) These rules eliminate many villages for marriage purposes . In villages like Rampur kinship terms are generally applied within the caste . A girl may call all the boys and ...
... marriage into the mother's mother's clan has been relaxed . ) These rules eliminate many villages for marriage purposes . In villages like Rampur kinship terms are generally applied within the caste . A girl may call all the boys and ...
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Caste and the Jajmani System | 55 |
Land Tenure and Economics | 87 |
A Study of Factions Within Castes | 113 |
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