369/849 Members of each branch belong to the same clan or _got_. Each _khunt_ or branch has a share of the village lands. The Mochis or cobblers have forty exogamous sections or _gotras_, mostly named after Rajput clans, and they also have an equal number of _kheras_ or groups named after villages. The limits of the two groups seem to be identical; and members of each group have an ancestral village from which they are supposed to have come. Marriage is now regulated by the Rajput sept-names, but the probability is that the _kheras_ were the original divisions, and the Rajput _gotras_ have been more recently adopted in support of the claims already noticed. |