Encyclopedia of World Cultures Volume III - South Asia - P potx

... of India. Vol. 9, pt. 4, 1. Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing. Majumdar, D. N. (1972). Himalayan Polyandry: Structure, Functioning, and Culture Change, a Field-Study of Jaunsar Bawar. New York: Asia Publishing House. Newell, William H. (1967). Census of India, 1961. Vol. 20, Himachal Pradesh, pt. 5-B, The Gaddi and Affiliated Castes in the Western Himalayas, Report on...

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... land for cultivation. Shifting agriculture that the Bhils practiced was ended by government measures that brought pressure to settle permanently and farm the lands allocated to them. Landholdings range from 1.2 to 6 hectares with fruit and nontimber trees considered as part of the property if the owner's father had harvest rights to them. Timber trees are the property of the state. P...

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... as by banyans, pipals, bananas, and papayas. Subsistence and Commercial Activities. The major crops on dry land terraces are maize, accounting for half of the har- vest, wheat, and dry rice. With the exception of a small amount of maize, the irrigated terraces are planted to rice. Over the years the Magars have also made use of buckwheat, hulled barley, mustard, potatoes, sugarcane, b...

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... people from cultures different from our own. "We" is used here in the broadest sense, to include not just scholars who study the cul- tures of the world and businesspeople and government offi- cials who work in the world community but also the average citizen who reads or hears about multicultural events in the news every day and young people who are growing up in this compl...

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... the various Abor groups) and external (i.e., with neighboring peoples) warfare were effectively elimi- nated after the initiation of British rule. Conflict between vil- lages is handled by the bango council and the resolution of interbango conflict is the responsibility of the bogum bokang. Religion and Expressive Culture Religious Belief&. Abor religion is characterized by a belief...

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... a Konkani goddess. The temple of Jogeshvari is one of the main goddess temples in the older part of the city of Pune (Poona), the capital of the peshwas during the Maratha period. The peshwas also had a special relationship with the elephant-headed god Ganesh, "the remover of ob- stacles," and in the late nineteenth century the nationalist Bal Gangadhar Tilak raised hous...

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... old culture is comprised of three main layers: the Tamil-Malayalam substratum with its many subtle roots; old Sinhala culture and language, which is the dominant element; and the phase of Arabic in- fluence. But the Maldives were touched by every cultural wind that passed over the Indian Ocean. Since independence there has again been influence from Sri Lanka, through its teachers brought...

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... 90 Gujarati Gujarat and lowest in Kachchh. The population is growing at the rate of 2.7 percent per year. Gujarati-speaking people constitute 91 percent of the population of Gujarat, which also includes 1.5 percent Kachchh-speaking people. There are three main religious groups in Gujarat: Hindus (89.5 per- cent), Muslims (8.5 percent) and Jains (1 percent). A major- ity of the Muslims...

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... found as household servants and cooks, and in some cities in India they run public bathhouses. Hijras complain that in contemporary India their opportunity to earn a living by the respectable means of performing at marriages and births has declined, due to smaller families, less elaborate life-cycle ceremonies, and a general decline in the respect for traditional ritual specialists. Hijras...

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... as the bridesmaid, and the bride's brother will serve as the best man. The bride is brought by her relatives and the groom's party to the groom's house on the wedding day. In the house or within a temporary shelter (pandal) erected near the house, the groom in the most pertinent act of the marriage ceremony and in conformity with the widespread practice in southern India, tie...

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