Indian Society, Institutions And Change, Rajendra K. Sharma, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 2004, ISBN 978-81-7156-665-5, ... Totem is the object or animal who is supposed to have mystic relationship with the members of a tribe. The members of the tribe very much respect their totem. The animal of totem cannot be killed or eaten except on certain special occassions ...
Maharashtra, Kumar Suresh Singh, B. V. Bhanu, Anthropological Survey of India, Popular Prakashan, 2004, ISBN 978-81-7991-100-6, ... Each surname has a totem. For example the Tambe was originally Tambiya and its totem was the cobra Nagdev, especially black or ash coloured. The persons belonging to Tambe surname will not kill a cobra and they worship cobra ...
The people of India, Sir Herbert Hope Risley, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1908, ... Where two distinct septs have the same totem intermarriage is prohibited. All the septs revere and refrain from injuring or using their totem ... a kind of creeper called gaola on which the members may not tread, and is they do so accidentally must apologise by making a salaam ... The Mori or peacock sept mav not knowingly tread on the tracks of a peacock, and if a woman sees a peacock she must veil her face or look away ...
