If he is not available, any one whom either the girl's father or the boy's father addresses as _bhanja_ or nephew in the village, even though he may be no relation and may belong to another caste, may perform the ceremony as a substitute.

Among the Oraons and other tribes prenuptial intercourse between boys and girls of the same village is regularly allowed.

It is not considered right, however, that these unions should end in marriage, for which partners should be sought from other villages.

[176] In the Maratha country the villagers have a communal feast on the occasion of the Dasahra festival, the Kunbis or cultivators eating first and the members of the menial and labouring castes afterwards.
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The large exogamous clans of the Brahmans and Rajputs.