Vulgar words in The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV - Kumhar-Yemkala (Page 1)
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But they call the bastard group of their community Rakhaut Kurmis, and other people speak of all of them as Gabel Kurmis, so that there is no doubt that they belong to the caste.
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For killing a man, a cow, a buffalo, an ass, a horse, a squirrel, a cat or a monkey a man must purify himself by bathing in the Ganges at Allahabad or Benares and giving a feast to the caste.
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To kill an ass or a monkey is a sin only less heinous.
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In Sholapur the Marathas and Kunbis eat together, and the Kunbis are said to be bastard Marathas.
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Its application to the caste, the most abject and despised in the Hindu community, is perhaps partly ironical; but all the low castes have honorific titles, which are used as a method of address either from ordinary politeness or by those requiring some service, on the principle, as the Hindus say, that you may call an ass your uncle if you want him to do something for you.
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As might be expected, the form of Islam professed by the Meos is of a very bastard order, and Major Powlett's account of it is reproduced in a short separate notice of that tribe.
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They have a division of impure blood called the Gate or bastard Naodas, who marry among themselves, and any girl who reaches the age of puberty without being married is relegated to this.
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They will not touch an ass, a cat or a dog, and consider it sinful to kill animals which bark or bray.
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According to him Oraon was a name coined by the Hindus, its base being _orgoran_, hawk or cunny bird, used as the name of a totemistic sept. Sir G. Grierson, however, suggested a connection with the Kaikari, _urupai_, man; Burgandi _urapo_, man; _urang_, men.
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In other cases the illegitimate branch has a special name; thus the Niche Pat Bundelas of Saugor and Chhoti Tar Rajputs of Nimar are the offspring of fathers of the Bundela and other Rajput tribes with women of lower castes; both these terms have the same meaning as Lohri Sen, that is a low-caste or bastard group.
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Another class of bastard children of Brahmans are called Dogle, and such people commonly act as servants of Maratha Brahmans; as these Brahmans do not take water to drink from the hands of any caste except their own, they have much difficulty in procuring household servants and readily accept a Dogle in this capacity without too close a scrutiny of his antecedents.
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The Ghantra Lohars are thus probably of bastard origin, like the groups known as half-castes and others which are frequently found.