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Title: Castes and tribes of southern India. Assisted by K. Rangachari
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Thurston, Edgar, 1855-1935 Rangachari, K
Subjects: Caste -- India Madras (Presidency) Ethnology -- India Madras (Presidency) India -- Social conditions
Publisher: Madras Government Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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by no meansdisappeared amongst the various sections of the commu-nity. Southerners and Northerners will not intermarry,and families who trace their descent from Brahmansand Nayars will, in many cases, not admit lower classesto their houses, much less allow them to cook for themor touch them. jMost of the Syrians observe the Onamand Vishu festivals ; the astrologer is frequently consultedto cast horoscopes and tell omens ; while it is a commoncustom for persons suffering from diseases to seek a cureby buying silver or tin images of the diseased limb,which their priest has blessed. Similar survivals are to benoticed in their social ceremonies. A Pulikudi ceremony,similar to that of the Hindus, was commonly performedtill recently, though it has now fallen into disuse.Immediately on the birth of a child, three drops of honeyin which gold has been rubbed are poured into its mouthby its father, and the mother is considered to be underpollution till the tenth day. Baptism takes place on the
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bVRIAX CHRlSilAN BRIDE. 451 SYRIAN CHRISTIAN fourteenth day amongst the Southern Jacobites, andamongst other divisions on the fifty-sixth day. A rice-giving ceremony similar to the Hindu Chorunnu is stillsometimes performed in the fifth or sixth month, whenthe child is presented by the mother with a gold cross,if a boy, or a small gold coin or taluvam if a girl, to beworn round the neck. Among the Jacobites early marriage was the ruleuntil comparatively recently, boys being married at tenor twelve years of age, and girls at six or seven. Nowthe more usual age for marriage is sixteen in the caseof boys, and twelve in the case of girls. Weddingstake place on Sundays, and, amongst the Northerners,may be celebrated in either the brides or the bride-grooms parish church. On the two Sundays beforethe wedding, the banns have to be called in the twochurches, and the marriage agreements concluded inthe presence of the parish priests (Ottu kalyanam).The dowry, which is an essential feature of S

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