The Tribes And Castes of the Central Provinces of India - volume Iv of Iv
The Tribes And Castes of the Central Provinces of India - volume Iv of Iv
Russell Robert Vane
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They reverethe dog and will not kill it, and also worship snakes and tigers, believing that these animals never do them injury. They carry theirdead to the grave in a sitting posture, seated in a _jholi_ or wallet, and bury them in the same position. They wear their beards and donot shave. Some of these Pindaris are personal servants, otherscultivators and labourers, and others snake-charmers and jugglers. 9. Attractions of a Pindari's life The freebooting life of the Pindaris, unmitigated scou...ndrels thoughthey were, no doubt had great charms, and must often have been recalledwith regret by those who settled down to the quiet humdrum existenceof a cultivator. This feeling has been admirably depicted in SirAlfred Lyall's well-known poem, of which it will be permissible toquote a short extract: When I rode a Dekhani charger with the saddle-cloth gold-laced, And a Persian sword and a twelve-foot spear and a pistol at my waist. It's many a year gone by now; and yet I often dream Of a long dark march to the Jumna, of splashing across the stream, Of the waning moon on the water and the spears in the dim starlight As I rode in front of my mother [447] and wondered at all the sight.
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