Dindi

Pilgrim group in the Varkari Panth, a
religious community that is centered
around the worship of the god Vithoba
at his temple at Pandharpur in modern
Maharashtra. The primary Varkari religious practice is taking part in two
annual pilgrimages, in which all the participants arrive in Pandharpur on the
same day. On this pilgrimage, pilgrims
travel in groups called dindis. Dindis are
often made up of people from the same
neighborhood or area and are usually
formed along caste lines. During the pilgrimage, members of a dindi travel as a
unit, walking and singing devotional
hymns together during the day, and
cooking and camping together at night.
These dindis thus create smaller
subcommunities within the larger
pilgrim body.