It seems likely that the caste are an inferior branch of the Daharia cultivating caste of Chhattisgarh, which is derived from the Daharia clan of Rajputs.

[438] Like other Rajputs the Daraihans have an elaborate system of septs and subsepts, the former having the names of Rajput clans, while the latter are taken from the eponymous _gotras_ of the Brahmans.

There are fourteen septs, named as a rule after the principal Rajput clans, of whom four, the Chandel, Kachhwaha, Dhandhul and Sakrawara, rank higher than the other ten, and will take daughters from these in marriage, but not give their daughters in return.

Besides the septs they have the standard Brahmanical _gotras_, as Kausilya, Bharadwaj, Vasishtha and so on to the number of seven, and the members of each sept are divided into these _gotras_.

Theoretically a man should not take a wife whose sept or _gotra_ is the same as his own.