1. It is, however, strictly endogamous .

2. Any of numerous hereditary, endogamous social subclasses stratified according to Hindu ritual purity.

3. Any of numerous hereditary, endogamous social subclasses stratified according to hindu ritual purity.

4. But in the first place the endogamous character of the gens which is here asserted is precisely what has to be proved.

5. The separate endogamous tribes are nearly as numerous, and they are in some respects as ride, as the separate exogamous tribes.

6. In a word, the matter appears simple and natural as soon as we abandon the extraordinary conception of the endogamous Roman gens and regard it, with Morgan, as originally exogamous.

7. The slightest doubt in the existence of exogamous and endogamous "tribes" of absolute mutual exclusiveness was considered rank heresy.

8. And 9. That there is a reason to think that some endogamous tribes became endogamous in this manner.