2. Admission of outsiders.

Outsiders are not as a rule admitted. But a woman of equal or higher

caste who enters the house of a Bhatra will be recognised as his wife,

and a man of the Panara, or gardener caste, can also become a member of

the community if he lives with a Bhatra woman and eats from her hand.

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