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Title: Natives of northern India
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Ethnology -- India India -- Social conditions India -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. Constable and Company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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be is based on the principle of kin-ship ; that is to say, it is composed of a number ofkindred groups of agnates, who reckon descentthrough the father. But its constitution admits ofassociation within the tribe of a certain number ofalien groups, who are said to live within its shade.These are foreign allies introduced for active participa-tion in any blood feud which the tribe may have onhand. On the other hand, the tribe is subject toconstant loss by fission, when, in consequence of theirnomadic habits, one section breaks off and abandonsthe common land and water. This severance may betemporary or permanent, and in the latter case theindependent group sets up for itself. Among the Baloch the organisation is much looser.There is no eponymous ancestor, and the tribe itselfdoes not profess to be homogeneous. Outsiders fromall quarters are freely admitted to membership as valu-able allies to be used in the constant blood feuds inwhich the tribes are engaged. When such an outsider No. 6
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Women in the Plains, showing Dress and Jewellery TRIBES OF THE NORTHERN HILLS 59 shows his worth he is assigned a share in the triballands, and intermarries within the tribe. The Balochare now gradually changing their mode of life fromthe nomadic to the pastoral. Their chief usually hasa fixed residence, but this never becomes the nucleusof a town. Most of them live in the country, wheretheir villages are collections of mud or stone walls,over which temporary roofs are erected. When thecommunity moves to another grazing-ground the roofsare carried off, and the walls are left for the accom-modation of the next comers. In some cases they livein recesses or ledges of the cliffs. Their wealth con-sists in cattle, camels, sheep, and goats ; but arts, suchas embroidery and carpet-making, flourish amongthem, as with the Turkomans, with whom they mustat some time in their history have been in contact.Robbers they were and are, save so far as thesepursuits have been restricted under British ru

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