Hindu Togata Matrimonial Site

Hindu Togata Matrimony

Hindu Togata Marriage Site

Hindu togata matrimony are Telugu weavers, most numerous in the Cuddapah district, who manufacture the coarsest kind of cotton cloths, such as are worn by the poorer classes. They are generally Vaishnavites, wear the sacred thread, and have for their priests Vaishnava Br?hmans or S?t?nis. They eat flesh, and their widows are allowed to remarry. Writing concerning the Togatas in 1807, Buchanan states that “widows cannot marry again, but are not expected to kill themselves. The Panchanga, or village astrologer, attends at births, marriages, funerals, at the ceremonies performed in honour of their deceased parents, and at the building of a new house, and on each occasion gets a fee of one fanam, or eight pence. Hindu togata matrimony, where they are fairly numerous, is as follows. Once upon a time, a king from Southern India went on a pilgrimage with his wife to Benares. Hindu togata brides and grooms other castes besides Hindu Togata help at the festival. Hindu Togata is said to have been dyeing, but, at the present day, owing to the depression in the hand-loom weaving industry, a large number has taken to cultivation.