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THE CASTES AND TRIBES <br/>

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H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS <br/>

BY <br/>

SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN <br/>

Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and <br/>

Middle Temple, London. <br/>

One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court <br/>

of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. <br/>

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Maha Brahman, or Great Brahman — a contemptuous epithet applied to those Brahmins who officiate at the funeral ceremonies of the 
respectable castes, claim the clothes thrown over the dead bodies when 
carried to be burnt and eat the food given in charity at) the close of 
the period of mourning. It is said that a mourner is never pure from 
funeral impurity unless he feeds a Maha Brahmin with his own hand 
and unless the Maha Brahmin strokes his back. No other caste will 
eat from the hands of these Brahmins. Their touch also is regarded as 
unclean by the higher castes. They have got the same eponymous 
groups as other Brahmins, such as Shandilya, Bharadwaja and others. 
Polygamy is allowed. Widows are forbidden to remarry, and 
divorce is not recognised. They are the followers of the Shaiva 
sect and worship Mahadeo as their patron deity. They abstain from 
the use of liquor and meat.