Identifier: tribescastesofce04russ (find matches)
Title: The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane), 1873-1915
Subjects: Ethnology -- India Madhya Pradesh Caste -- India Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (India) -- Religion
Publisher: London : Macmillan and Co., limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hisis called kachJiota. On the upper part of the body theywear an angia or breast-cloth, that is a short, tight, sleevelessjacket reaching only to below the breasts. The ajigia istied behind, while the Maratha cJioli, which is the same thing,is buttoned or tied in front. High-caste women draw theirshoulder-cloth right over the head so that the face cannotbe seen. When a woman goes before a person of positionshe covers her head, as it is considered immodest to leaveit bare. Women of respectable families wear a sheet of finewhite, yellow, or red cloth drawn over the head and reachingto the ankles when they go on a journey, this being knownas pichhova. In Chhattlsgarh all the requirements of fashionamong women are satisfied by one cloth from 8 to i 2 yardslong and about a yard wide, which envelops the person inone fold from tiie waist to below the knee, hanging some-what loosely. It is tied at the waist, and the remaining halfis spread over the breast and drawn across the right shoulder.
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II BATHING—FOOD 93 the end covering the head like a sheet and falling over theleft shoulder. The simplicity of this solitary garment dis-plays a graceful figure to advantage, especially on festivaldays, when those who can afford it are arrayed in tasar silk.When a girl is married the bridegrooms family give herexpensive clothes to wear at festivals and her own peoplegive her ordinary clothes, but usually not more than will lasta year. Whenever she goes back to her fathers house afterher marriage, he gives her one or two cloths if he can affordit. Women of the middle and lower classes wear ornamentsof bell-metal, a mixture of copper and zinc, which are verypopular. Some women wear brass and zinc ornaments, andwell-to-do persons have them of silver or gold. Hot water is not used for bathing in Saugor, except by 39- Bath-invalids, but is customary in Betul and other Districts. ^The bathing-place in the court)ard is usually a large squarestone on which the bather sits ; he has a big cir

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