The Parjas have totemistic exogamous clans and marriage is prohibited in theory between members of the same clan.

But as the number of clans is rather small, the rule is not adhered to, and members of the same clan are permitted to marry so long as they do not come from the same village.

The Minas of Rajputana are divided into twelve exogamous _pals_ or clans; the original meaning of the word _pal_ was a defile or valley suitable for defence, where the members of the clan would live together as in a Scotch glen.
Thus among the cultivating castes apparently each exogamous clan consisted originally of the residents of one village, though they afterwards spread to a number of villages.

The servile labouring castes may also have arranged their clans by villages as the primitive forest-tribes did.

How the menial castes formed exogamous clans is not altogether clear, as the numbers in one village would be only small.