Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - H pps

... the houses of their audiences; therefore, maintaining a reputation for honesty is necessary for their profession. Because the hijra household is both an economic and a domestic group, pressures to conform are great. Serious conflicts are inhibited by the geographical mobility permitted within the community. Any hijra who cannot get along in one household can move to another for a while; a p...

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... Introduction xxvii Williams, L. F. Rushbrook, ed. (1975). A Handbook fo'r Travellers in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka (Ceylon). 22nd ed. London: John Murray. Yule, Henry, and A. C. Burnell (1903). Hobson-Jobson, A Glossary of Coloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical, and Discursive. Rev. ed. London: Jo...

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... land or water. The four divisions of land repre- sent the four Ongee clans. Each section of the island is further subdivided into sections of land associated with a lineage. These land divisions, known as megeyabarrotas, are identified with a person's matrilineage and, depending on whether the territory is in the forest or on the coast, with either the turtle hunters (eahambelakwe)...

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... receive their reward- between time of death and an eventual Day of Destruction, upon which the world will come to an end. There will then be a Day of Judgment, whereupon all beings will be restored to life, and humans will be brought before God (Allah) to have their lifetime deeds-which have been recorded by Allah's angels in a Great Book-reviewed and counted. Should one's g...

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... chief nationalist group. The non-Brahmans then dominated by sheer numbers and a newfound sense of their importance in the previously Brahman-dominated political arena. By the time of Indian independence, no Brahman was important in the Congress party. Later Chitpavan political skill was exerted on the Left and on the Right, not in the moderate Indian National Con- gress. Important Sociali...

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... 78 Divehi dress, have claimed that unlike the other Divehis they had no divorce or widow remarriage, and have said their ancestors were Tamils, though they have no knowledge of such people and have never traveled outside their atoll. They have also claimed to be strictly endogamous. Other Divehis tradition- ally have thought of the Girivaru as dirty, while they have thought of other Div...

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... is not necessary for him to marry for companionship or even for help in cultivation, as the average holding of a Grasia is small and he is able to do all agricul- tural work even if he has a small family. The main reasons for a man to take more than one wife are either that his first wife cannot bear children or that she has only female children. Sociopolitical Organization The Grasias work...

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... Indian priests, and also brought in large numbers of European Jesuits in a su- pervisory capacity. The year 1947 marked a landmark in Protestant church history, not just because this was the year of independence for both India and Pakistan but also because it was the year when the Church of South India came into being-the first unified Protestant church anywhere. It of course absorb...

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... a very large proportion of the population. Industrial Arts and Division of Labor. Among the agri- cultural Jat, traditionally only the men work in the fields, Jain 109 prime responsibility for digging the grave, but the Kurumba present also assists. When all is ready, the body is placed in the grave so that it faces toward the north. The local Irula priest (pujari) then gazes at a lamp an...

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... H. (1872). "On the Stone Monuments of the Khasi Hill Tribes, and on Some Peculiar Rites and Customs of the People." Journal of the Anthropological Insti- tute of Great Britain and Ireland 1:12 2-1 43. Gurdon, P. R T. (1904). "Note on the Khasis, Syntengs, and Allied Tribes, Inhabiting the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District in Assam." Journal of the Asiatic Soci...

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