The Garasia people prefer traditional medicine to modern medicine because they believe in using medicinal plants. The institution of marriage gives supremacy to manhood in tribal culture, but the Garasia people are more into practices that give equality to both sides.

GARASIA TRIBE

Language

Dungri Garasia, their language, is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bhil sub-group. Despite their kinship with the Bhil, the Rajput belong to a higher caste (social class) and dislike the term "Bhil tribe."

Culture

The Garasia people typically live in a house with a one-room made with mud and bamboo. The wealthy construct flat tiled roofs, while the poor continue to rely on thatch. Houses are typically constructed on the slopes of hills, with fields stretching out in front. A guest house is usually located directly across from the village's headman's residence. There is little cooperation or unity among the village clans.

Women are not permitted to own property and must cover their faces with veils when in the presence of their male relatives. Cooking, caring for the cattle, milking the animals, and looking after the children are all responsibilities of the women. The men do the heavy lifting, such as plowing, harvesting, and constructing the houses.

The Rajputs revered their horses, swords, and the sun in the past. They still practice ethnic religions today, but Hinduism has had a significant influence on their beliefs. Even though, like Hindus, they now worship millions of gods and revere holy cows, they still believe in spirits and are afraid of ghosts, spirits of the dead, and black magic.

Garasia people believe that marriage in modern society imposes a number of restrictions, particularly on women. As a result, they adhere to the principle of "right to reject and right to choose," granting women equal or even higher status.

Polygamy is also practiced in this community, with a Garasia man being permitted to have multiple wives if his first wife is sterile or bears no sons. A woman can also look for a new live-in partner at a different fair, who will be expected to pay more than the woman's previous partner.