7. Social rules.
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Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
The Kolis eat flesh, including fowls and pork, and drink liquor. They will not eat beef, but have no special reverence for the cow. They will not remove the carcase of a dead cow or a dead horse. The social status of the tribe is low, but they are not considered as impure, and Gūjars, Kunbis, and even some Rājpūts will take water from them. Children are named on the twelfth day after birth. Their hair is shaved in the month of Māgh following the birth, and on the first day of the next month, Phāgun, a little oil is applied to the child’s ear, after which it may be pierced at any time that is convenient.
Source notes
1 Lyall’s Berār Gazetteer, pp. 103–5.
2Kāthiawār Gazetteer, p. 140.
3 Crooke’s edition of Hobson-Jobson, art. Koli.
4Bombay City Census Report (1901) (Edwards).
5Gujarāt Gazetteer, p. 238.
6Golden Book of India, s.v.
7Semecarpus anacardium, the marking-nut tree.
8 Kitts, Berār Census Report (1881), p. 131.
9Akola Gazetteer (Mr. C. Brown), p. 116.
10 P. 197.
11Hindus of Gujarāt, l.c.
12Indian Antiquary, vol. iii. p. 236.
13Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarāt, p. 250.
14Indian Antiquary, vol. iii. p. 236.