7/9 'In some parts of Northern India the match-maker for some castes is the family barber; but for the higher castes he is more generally a Brahman, who goes about from one house to another till he discovers a baby-girl of suitable rank' (_Religious Thought and Life in India_, p. 377). So far as the editor knows, the barber is ordinarily employed in Northern India. During the operations against the Pindhari freebooters. Many treaties were negotiated with the Peshwa and other native powers in the years 1817 and 1818. |