75. _Comparison of Hindu society with that of Greece and
Rome. The_ gens.
76. _The clients._
77. _The plebeians._
78. _The binding social tie in the city-states._
79. _The Suovetaurilia._
80. _The sacrifice of the domestic animal._
81. _Sacrifices of the_ gens _and phratry._
82. _The Hindu caste-feasts._
83. _Taking food at initiation._
84. _Penalty feasts._
85. _Sanctity of grain-food._
86. _The corn-spirit._
87. _The king._
88. _Other instances of the common meal as a sacrificial rite._
89. _Funeral feasts._
90. _The Hindu deities and the sacrificial meal._
91. _Development of the occupational caste from the tribe._
92. _Veneration of the caste implements._
93. _The caste_ panchayat _and its code of offences._
94. _The status of impurity._
95. _Caste and Hinduism._
96. _The Hindu reformers._
97. _Decline of the caste system._

1. The Central Provinces.

The territory controlled by the Chief Commissioner of the Central
Provinces and Berar has an area of 131,000 square miles and a
population of 16,000,000 persons. Situated in the centre of the Indian
Peninsula, between latitudes 17 deg.47' and 24 deg.27' north, and longitudes
76 deg. and 84 deg. east, it occupies about 7.3 per cent of the total area
of British India. It adjoins the Central India States and the United
Provinces to the north, Bombay to the west, Hyderabad State and the
Madras Presidency to the south, and the Province of Bihar and Orissa
to the east. The Province was constituted as a separate administrative
unit in 1861 from territories taken from the Peshwa in 1818 and the
Maratha State of Nagpur, which had lapsed from failure of heirs in
1853. Berar, which for a considerable previous period had been held on
a lease or assignment from the Nizam of Hyderabad, was incorporated
for administrative purposes with the Central Provinces in 1903. In
1905 the bulk of the District of Sambalpur, with five Feudatory States
inhabited by an Uriya-speaking population, were transferred to Bengal
and afterwards to the new Province of Bihar and Orissa, while five
Feudatory States of Chota Nagpur were received from Bengal. The
former territory had been for some years included in the scope of
the Ethnographic Survey, and is shown coloured in the annexed map of
linguistic and racial divisions.

The main portion of the Province may be divided, from north-west
to