Caste and Race in India c6.43

c6.43

Differences in customs and diet have been regarded as so important that some of the castes recognize groups with such differences as sub-castes, though the names of these do not necessarily take after the differences. The Berads of Bombay have two sub-castes, the difference between them being that the members of one eat the flesh of buffaloes, bullocks or pigs, and allow their women to follow prostitution, while the members of the other do not tolerate these practices. These latter are termed Bile, i.e. white or pure, and the former Kare or black. Dhor, one of the five sub-divisions of the Katkaris, is so called because the members eat beef. Moger, a Canarese fishing-caste, has three sub-divisions named according to their rules of inheritance: Aliyasantanas, Makalasantanas, and Randesantanas, i.e. those who inherit through females, those who inherit through males, and those who are the progeny of re-married widows.² The Kunbis of the Central Provinces have a sub-caste called Gadhao because they formerly kept donkeys (gadhav).