People of India: Uttar Pradesh, Volume 1

agricultural alcoholic drinks annaprashan areas attitude barat biradari panchayat birth boys Brahman bride bridegroom brother cash and kind caste ceremony is performed Chamar chhatti child clothes community members consume cooking cremation daughters dead death Dehradun deities 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 Jogi kachcha Kamboj kanyadan Kayastha Kewat Kharwar Kumaoni Kurmi labour levirate life-cycle rituals male married milk Monogamy mother mundan Mundan ceremony Muslim negotiation nikah non-vegetarian nuclear observed occasion parents patrilocal persons pollution polygyny practised programmes pucca pucca food pulses Rajput regional relationship religious remarriage residence rice rites role share social sororate staple food status statutory panchayat sub-groups Thakur Uttar Pradesh varna vegetables village wheat widow woman women worship younger