. The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India . are lodged when they stay at night in thevillage. Kothas or sheds for keeping cattle and grain standagainst the walls, and the dwelling-house is at the tenants have a house like the proprietors, of well-laid mud, whitewashed and with tiled roof; but the ordinarycultivators house is one-roomed, with an angan or smallyard in front and a little space for a garden behind, inwhich vegetables are grown during the rains. The wallsare of bamboo matting plastered over with mud. Themarried couples sleep inside, the room being p
. The tribes and castes of the Central Provinces of India . are lodged when they stay at night in thevillage. Kothas or sheds for keeping cattle and grain standagainst the walls, and the dwelling-house is at the tenants have a house like the proprietors, of well-laid mud, whitewashed and with tiled roof; but the ordinarycultivators house is one-roomed, with an angan or smallyard in front and a little space for a garden behind, inwhich vegetables are grown during the rains. The wallsare of bamboo matting plastered over with mud. Themarried couples sleep inside, the room being partitioned offif there are two or more in the family, and the older personssleep in the verandahs. In the middle of the village by thebiggest temple will be an old pipal tree, the trunk encircledby an earthen or stone platform, which answers to thevillage club. The respectable inhabitants will meet herewhile the lower classes go to the liquor-shop nearly every Tliese paragraphs are largely based on a description of a Wardha village byMr. A. K. Smith, II FURNITURE 43 night to smoke and chat. The blacksmiths and carpentersshops are also places of common resort for the they wend in the morning and evening, often takingwith them some implement which has to be mended, andstay to talk. The blacksmith in particular is said to be agreat gossip, and will often waste much of his customerstime, plying him for news and retailing it, before he repairsand hands back the tool brought to him. The village issure to contain two or three little temples of Maroti orMahadeo. The stones which do duty for the images aredaily oiled with butter or ghl, and a miscellaneous store ofofferings will accumulate round the buildings. Outside thevillage will be a temple of Devi or Mata Mai (SmallpoxGoddess) with a heap of little earthen horses and a stringof hens feet and feathers hung up on the wall. The littleplatforms which are the shrines of the other village godswill be found in th
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