what do you mean by the Gond society
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Gond society is divided into four exogamous, patrilineal descent groups known in anthropological terminology as phratries. Each phratry (saga in Gondi) traces its descent to one of the four groups of gods who emerged from the primeval cave after their release by the hero Lingal.
The Gonds lived in a vast forested region known as Gondwana and they practised shifting cultivation. The large Gond tribe was divided into many other smaller clans and were built near a mountain or river which were later fortified with dense forests. Of each large Gond tribe was divided and had different raja or rai.
A few large Gond kingdoms were beginning to dominate the smaller Gond chiefs about the time when Delhi Sultans were declining. Garha Katanha, a rich state with about 70,000 villages, was mentioned in Akbar Nama. It was the rich state that has earned huge amount of wealth by trapping and selling elephants. It had a large booty of precious coins.
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