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THE CASTES AND TRIBES 

OF 

H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS 

BY 

SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN 

Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and 

Middle Temple, London. 

One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court 

of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. 

BOMBAY 

THE TlMES PRESS 

1920 
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Domara, Dombari, Dotnri, Reddi Domara — a vagrant mongrel
tribe of acrobats, jugglers, rope-dancers and tumblers, chiefly found
in the Ttilugu and Carnatic Districts of H. H. the Nizam's Domi-
nions. They are identical with the Kolhatis of Maharashtra, both
of them being associated with the same means of livelihood. Both
tribes have the evil repute of being highway robbers, burglars and
, dakaits, and are classed by the police among the criminal tribes
of the Dominions.

==History==

These tribes wander about in small gangs throughout
the country and encamp in temporary huts of mats made of palmyra
leaves. The men are ostensibly engaged in making combs of buffalo
horns and wood, brooms for weaver's looms, dolls and mattresses.
To these occupations they add the exhibition of gymnastic feats,
rope-dancing, tumbling, conjuring tricks and athletic exercises. In
these performances they are joined by their women, some of whom
are wonderfully expert in exhibitions on a long bamboo pole or a
tight rope. To attract large audiences, the women selected as
acrobats are generally smart and good-looking, and are trained in
the art from their childhood. In their character, these women are
very loose and dissolute, and the men not only encourage them in their
depraved habits, but subsist largely on their immoral gains.

Both the Kolhatis and the Domaras are a mixed race composed of
various elements and this fact accounts for the appreciable varia-
tions observed in their complexion and features. This variation of
type seems to be due to the intermixture of blood brought about by
the free admission of outsiders into the community, the prostitution of
their women, and the kidnapping 'of high-caste girls to be brought
up as dancing girls.

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