Marriages
Banjara tribe was divided into four clans, namely, Rathod(Bhukya), Pamhar(Pawar), Chauhan(Chavan) and Vaditya(Jadhav) with a number of sub-clans within them. Each of this clan was exogamous and cannot marry within the same sub clan as they are considered as brother and sister. A man can marry his sister’s daughter, mother’s brother daughter. Banjara man cannot marry maternal uncle’s or anti’s daughter, such is considered as incest. In Banjara tribe usually as soon as the girl reaches puberty she was given in marriage. For girls the age will be 14-16 years and for boys the marriage age was17-20 years. A non-Banjara girl will be taken in marriage but a Banjara girl will not be given to a non-Banjara boy. Normally the marriage continued for three to seven days, but due to increasing expenses it was reduced to three days. A Banjara Women and Grandson (Jaipur, Rajasthan) | Photo by Tierney Farrell Some classify Banjaras into five gotras (Clans) , or super-famil...
