Vol. XI, Nos. 5 & 6.] Ethnographic Investigation. 167. 
[NV.8.] 
Indian castes are (theoretically at any rate) more exclusive 
than in the north, in the matter of eating and drinking. The 
tence, and polyandry is quite unknown. Polygamy is indeed 
theoreticaily permissible, but it has practically disappeared. 
the other side, which objects are called the totems of the 
human ap. 
of an animal a tree 
natural or artificial, which the members of that group are pro- 
hibited from i j 
dad 
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ing the article that has given the name to them. In sin “ 
Castes (e. - Madigas ), though the rule of not cutting, eating , 
froesetved by some subdivisions, in others, it ce. 
e name. 
one that has ig of 
Particular grain. During marriages, among es - ) 
. : 
4 particular tree is worshipped as house-god (= tet 
