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APPENDIX II ROMANCE OF BETEL-CHEWING 275
of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, vol. i, 1920, pp. 28-33 and
596-602. See also G. A. Grierson, Bihar Peasant Life, 2nd
edition, 1926, pp. 248-249.
Southern India
Owing to the fact that social customs of the Hindus have
remained more unchanged in the south than in any other
for us to consider the different
part of India, it is necessary
uses to which betel is put among the various tribes and castes
of the peninsula. In order to do this in any comprehensive
manner, I have found it necessary to go through all the seven
1
volumes of Mr Thurston's well-known work on the subject.
This has naturally taken a considerable amount of patience
and pertinacity, but I do not think the time has been wasted ;
for the evidence derived from the work is of undoubted value,
and it would be too much to expect readers to be grateful for
a mere reference to a seven-volume work which lacks any sort
of index.
It contains some three hundred references to betel either
to the leaf, the " nut " or to the combined pan-supari. Many
of these references are redundant, as betel is used at practically
every wedding ceremony of all tribes and castes. I shall
therefore select from the complete list of references given
below 2 such descriptions of customs and ceremonies as will
1 Castes and Tribes of Southern India, 7 vols., Madras, 1909.
2 Vol. i, pp. 9, 16, 21, 34, 60, 121, 125, 141, 163, 165, 200-204, 220, 233,
240, 247-249, 260, 265, 276, 279, 280, 290-292, 294, 300, 305, 351 and 359;
vol. ii, pp. 13, 24, 42, 65, 73, 76, 78, 89, 95, 105, 110, 117, 120, 143, 163, 201,
-255, 260, 270, 272, 294, 306, 322, 330, 343, 347, 349, 350, 358, 363, 369, 385,
386, 415, 416, 430 and 443 ; vol. iii, pp. 18, 22, 38, 46, 74, 79, 80, 81, 83, 101,
104, 110, 114, 128, 146, 149, 171, 172, 174-177, 206-209, 212, 213, 217, 220,
230, 235, 238, 239, 247, 253, 273, 275, 284, 295, 300, 328, 329, 334, 348, 420,
429, 435, 461, 465, 483 and 494; vol. iv, pp. 11, 32, 89, 98, 101-106, 109, 134,
143, 144, 146, 148, 160, 178, 180, 186, 198, 207, 220, 271, 272, 275, 279, 283-
285, 293, 319, 320, 322, 352-356, 363, 368, 369, 372, 374, 377, 381, 383, 385,
398, 420, 422, 426, 430 and 435 ;
vol. v, pp. 33, 35-37, 40, 67, 69, 108, 1 13-115,
128, 181, 186, 195, 199, 205, 218, 265-268, 294, 316, 330, 331, 334, 336, 355,
.358, 361, 364, 378, 402, 431, 441, 442, 445, 468, 470, 481-485; vol. vi, pp. 18,
22, 95-100, 117, 133, 137, 138, 175, 176, 184, 242, 252, 253, 255, 258, 323, 355,
360 and 382 ; vol. vii, pp. 9, 17, 24, 30, 53, 54, 57-59, 6l, 64, 75, 78, 79, 86,
89, 176, 178, 192, 193, 200, 201, 248, 253, 259, 282-284, 286, 301, 306, 307,
334, 345-347, 388, 400, 426 and 427.