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Title: The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane), 1873-1915
Subjects: Ethnology -- India Madhya Pradesh Caste -- India Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (India) -- Religion
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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last stalks are left standingin the field and are known as barJiona or the giver of increase.Then all the labourers rush together at this last patch ofcorn and tear it up by the roots ; everybody seizes as muchas he can and keeps it, the master having no share inthis patch. After the barhona has been torn up all thelabourers fall on their faces to the ground and worshipthe field. In other places the barhona is left standing forthe birds to eat. This custom arises from the beliefdemonstrated by Sir J. G. Frazer in The Golden Bough thatthe corn-spirit takes refuge in the last patch of grain, andthat when it is cut he flies away or his life is extinguished.And the idea is supported by the fact that the rats andother vermin, who have been living in the field, seek shelterin the last patch of corn, and when this is cut have todart out in front of the reapers. In some countries it isthought, as shown by Sir J. G. Frazer, that the corn-spirittakes refuge in the body of one of these animals.
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HOUSES 87 The house of a malguzar or good tenant stands in a 34-courtyard or angan 45 to 60 feet square and surrounded bya brick or mud wall. below :- The plan of a typical house is shown Dalan. Dalan. Cattle-shed (Sar). Sar. Living-room. Veranda. Veranda. Living-room. Veranda. Living- rooms. The ddldn or hall is for the reception of visitors. Oneof the living-rooms is set apart for storing grain. Thosewho keep their women secluded have a door at the back ofthe courtyard for their use. Cooking is done in one of therooms, and there are no chimneys, the smoke escapingthrough the tiles. They bathe either in the cliauk or centralcourtyard, or go out and bathe in a tank or river or at awell. The family usually sleep inside the house in thewinter and outside in the hot weather. A poor malguzaror tenant has only two rooms with a veranda in front, oneof which is used by the family, while cattle are kept in theother ; while the small tenants and labourers have only oneroom in which both men an

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