It is commonly found that all the households of a village believe themselves in a manner related.

A man will address all the men of the generation above his own as uncle, though they may be of different castes, and the children of the generation below his own as niece and nephew.

When a girl is married, all the old men of the village call her husband 'son-in-law.' This extends even to the impure castes who cannot be touched.

Yet owing to the fact that they live together they are considered by fiction to be related.

The Gowari caste do not employ Brahmans for their weddings, but the ceremony is performed by the _bhanja_ or sister's son either of the girl's father or the boy's father.