Doors, windows, and door frames are often ornately carved and painted. The houses usually have two or more stories, with the people living on the second floor and the animals roaming freely on the ground floor. During religious festivals or village fairs, the women like to wear brightly colored clothes, heavy silver nose rings and earrings, and colorful head scarves. There are many rites of passage for children such as the first rice feeding and the first haircut. When they are about eight years old, the children begin doing domestic chores.
Girls care for the younger children, haul water, and carry food for the animals.
Boys tend the animals, help in the fields, or carry milk to the market. Many children walk up to five or six miles a day to school. Ninety-five percent of the Churahi Pahari are Hindus, and nearly all of the others practice ethnic religions. Those who are Hindus are generally not as strict in their observance of religious laws as other Hindus. It is said that the Hindus worship more than 300 million gods.