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The simple rule of Exogamy that the bride must be selected 
from an encampment! different from that of the bridgegroom ' is 
pursued a true nomadic life. As we know them to-day, altho oo 
they are more and more inclined to become settled, the Kanjars 
remain divided up into several Exogamous septs in which are 
discernible the remnants of the camp system; and this is Exo- 
gamy in its most primitive form 
The Gehara Endogamous section of Kanjars is subdivided 
into ten Exogamous septs. Of these, I place eight as true, and 
0 as ‘spurious.’ I believe two septs are latter-day inven- 
their names would suggest this. It may be, the eight septs 
were found to be short of either men or women, and the creation 
of a new Exogamous sept became an absolute necessity to 
maintain the Endogamic value of the whole section. There is 
further justific ation in fixing the number of true Exogamous 
septs of the Gehara at eight, in that the two I term ‘spurious’ 
were not known to all the members of the tribe, while every 
adult man, aollewen boys, kn new theeight pukka got. Mr. Nesfield 
in his Account of the Kanjars* says, they ‘‘ profess to have seven 
clans, of whom five are well established, and four can be ex- 
plained by their crafts,’’ but Mr. Nesfield did not apparently 
appreciate that these seven ‘‘clans,’’ as he calls them, were 
‘* Exogamous septs!’’ Mr. Crooke considers the enumeration 
given to him ‘‘ by an Aligarh correspondent,” who ascribes nine 
sections to the Kunchbandia Kanjars, as ‘‘the most accurate 
and complete. 
The ten Soe septs of the Geharas discovered to 
me are— 
Bhains 
Baid Bhains. 
Goh-hér or Gailoth. 
Nakphula. 
Untwir. 
Mardiya. 
Sunkat. 
Sohnra. 
Sainak Sohda. 
Rart Sohda. 
Of the above the two doubtful septs are the Baid Bhains 
and Sainak Sohda. Nesfield’s list of ‘‘ clans’’ includes the 
Maraiya, Bhains, Sunkat, Gohar (Goh-her) an! Soda (or Sohda). 
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! See History of Marriage —Westermarck. 
2 Calcutta i‘eview, y EX XVI, 363 sqq. 
8 Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, vol. III, p. 137. 
