People of India: Jammu & Kashmir

agricultural azaan Bakarwals bath biradari birth boys Brahmans bride bridegroom called cash and kind caste cent ceremony Charjis child clothes consumed cooking cremation daughters dead body death deceased divorce Dogra Dogri dowry economic elders eldest endogamy exist facilities father feast female festivals girls given gotra Gujjars Hazratbal Hindu Hindu communities household husband iddat in-laws India Islam Jammu & Kashmir Jammu region Kashmir Valley Kashmiri language Kashmiri Pandits Khatris labour Ladakh land levirate live mahr male marriage rituals married maulvi Monogamy mother Muslim Muslim communities negotiations nikah non-vegetarian observed occasion panchayat Pandits parents participate patrilocal performed pirs Pohuls priest programmes Punjab Rajputs recite relatives religious remarriage rice rites rural areas Sahib script share shrines social socio-religious sororate Srinagar staple food status traditional occupation Urdu usually Vaishno Devi vegetables village Watal wear widow wife woman women worship