Magar

ETHNONYMS: none

[Editor's Note: This entry is much longer and more detailed than others to provide a sense of the social, religious, economic, and interpersonal details that are typical of daily life in many Hindu village societies throughout South Asia. This description focuses on life in the early 1960s in a hamlet given the pseudonym of Banyan Hill]

See also Brahman and Chhetri of Nepal ; Sunwar

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JOHN T. HITCHCOCK