Marriage by capture.
The view seems to have been long held that this transfer could only be effected by violence or capture, the manner in which presumably it was first practised.

Marriage by capture is very widely prevalent among savage races, as shown by Mr.M'Lennan in _Primitive Marriage_, and by Dr.Westermarck in _The History of Human Marriage_.

Where the custom has given place to more peaceable methods of procuring a wife, survivals commonly occur.

In Bastar the regular capture of the girl is still sometimes carried out, though the business is usually arranged by the couple beforehand, and the same is the case among the Kolams of Wardha.

A regular part of the marriage procedure among the Gonds and other tribes is that the bride should weep formally for some hours, or a day before the wedding, and she is sometimes taught to cry in the proper note.