Sometimes members of the menial and serving castes are invited to the funeral feast as if they belonged to the dead man's caste.

In Madras the barber and his wife, and the washerman and his wife, are known as the son and daughter of the village.

And among the families of ruling Rajput chiefs, when a daughter of the house is married, it was customary to send with her a number of handmaidens taken from the menial and serving castes.

These became the concubines of the bridegroom and it seems clear that their progeny would be employed in similar capacities about the household and would follow the castes of their mothers.

The Tamera caste of coppersmiths trace their origin from the girls so sent with the bride of Dharam-Pal, the Haihaya Rajput Raja of Ratanpur, through the progeny of these girls by the Raja.
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