Teli

Traditional Indian society was modeled
as a collection of endogamous, or intermarried, subgroups known as jatis
(“birth”). These jatis were organized
(and their social status determined) by
the group’s hereditary occupation, over
which each group had a monopoly. In
traditional northern Indian society, the
Telis were a Hindu jati whose hereditary
occupation was making vegetable oil by
pressing oil seeds.
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Teej