People of India: Uttar Pradesh (3 pts.)Anthropological Survey of India, 2005 - 1624 pages Ethnological study. |
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agricultural alcoholic drinks annaprashan areas attitude bangles barat biradari panchayat birth boys Brahman bride's bridegroom brother cash and kind caste ceremony is performed Chamar chhatti child clothes community members consume cooking cremation daughters dead death deities Devanagari Dhobi districts divorce Diwali dowry drinking water Dussehra economic elder eldest endogamous exists exogamous facilities family planning father favourable feast is given female festivals girl's girls gotra groom's Gurkha Gurung Halwai Hijra Hindi Hindu husband kachcha Kamboj kanyadan Kashmiri Pandit Kayastha Kewat Kumaoni Kurmi labour levirate life-cycle rituals male married milk modern medicare Monogamy mother Mundan ceremony Muslim negotiation nikah non-vegetarian nuclear observed occasion parents patrilocal pollution polygyny practised programmes pucca pucca food pulses Rajput regional religious remarriage rice rites role share social sororate staple food status statutory panchayat sub-groups Thakur Uttar Pradesh varna vegetables village wheat widow wife woman women worship younger