No services rendered, no participation in the common danger, no endurance of the burden and heat of the day, could create in an outsider any colour of right.

Nothing short of admission to the clan, and of initiation in its worship, could enable him to demand as of right the grass of a single cow or the wood for a single fire." [56] 23.

The ownership of land.
Thus it appears that the cultivating community of each village constituted an exogamous clan, the members of which believed themselves to be kinsmen.

When some caste or tribe occupied a fresh area of land they were distributed by clans in villages, over the area, all the cultivators of a village being of one caste or tribe, as is still the case with the Kunbis in Berar.

Sometimes several alien castes or groups became amalgamated into a single caste, such as the Kurmis and Kunbis; in others they either remained as a separate caste or became one.