He will take any remains of food left in the cooking-pot, as this is not considered to be polluted, food only becoming polluted when the hand touches it on the dish after having touched the mouth.

When this happens, all the food on the dish becomes _jutha_ or leavings of food, and as a general rule no caste except the sweepers will eat these leavings of food of another caste or of another person of their own.

Only a wife, whose meal follows her husband's, will eat his leavings.

As a servant, the Dhimar is very familiar with his master; he may enter any part of the house, including the cooking-place and the women's rooms, and he addresses his mistress as 'Mother.' When he lights his master's pipe he takes the first pull himself, to show that it has not been tampered with, and then presents it to him with his left hand placed under his right elbow in token of respect.

Maid-servants frequently belong also to the Dhimar caste, and it often happens that the master of the household has illicit intercourse with them.