page_title: Bhil people
section_title: Dress
hierarchical_section_title: Bhil people / Culture / Dress
caption_attribution_description: English: "A Bhil girl," a watercolor by Rao Bahadur M. V. Dhurandhar, 1928; more watercolors from the set: *"A working woman at Ajmere"* *"ABengali lady"* *"A Bhatia lady"* *"A Bhil girl"* *"A Bombay lady"* *"A Borah lady, Surat"* *"Born beside the sacred river"* *"A Brahman lady"* *"From Burmah"* *"Cambay type"* *"A dancer in Mirzapur"* *"A dancer from Tanjore"* *"A widow in the Deccan"* *"A dyer girl, Ahmedabad"* *"A fisherwoman, Sind"* *"A fishwife of Bombay"* *"A denizen of the Western Ghauts"* *"A gipsy woman"* *"A Gond woman"* *"A glimpse at a door in Gujarat"* *"A Gurkha's wife"* *"A Jain nun"* *"A lady from Jodhpur"* *"In the happy valley of Kashmir"* *"A Muslim artisan, Kathiawad"* *"A Khoja lady, Bombay"* *"A Mahar woman"* *"A Marathi lady"* *"A Memon lady walking"* *"A lady from Mewar* *"The milkmaid"* *"A mill hand"* *"A Mussulman lady"* *"A Mussulman nautch-girl"* *"A Mussulman weaver"* *"A lady from Mysore"* *"A Nagar beauty"* *"A Naikin in Kanara"* *"A Nair lady"* *"Parsi fashion"* *"A Pathan woman"* *"A Pathare Prabhu lady"* *"A Rajput lady, Kutch"* (shown above) *"A Southern India type"* *"A sweeper lady"* *"A Toda woman in the Nilgiries"* *"A lady of the United Provinces"* Source: ebay, Aug. 2006
context_page_description: Bhils or Bheels are an Indo-Aryan speaking ethnic group in West India. They speak the Bhil languages, a subgroup of the Western Zone of the Indo-Aryan languages. As of 2013, Bhils were the largest tribal group in India.
  Bhils are listed as indigenous people of the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan—all in the western Deccan regions and central India—as well as in Tripura in far-eastern India, on the border with Bangladesh. Bhils are divided into a number of endogamous territorial divisions, which in turn have a number of clans and lineages. Most Bhils now speak the language of the region they reside in, such as Marathi, Gujarati or a Hindustani dialect.
context_section_description: The traditional dresses of men are  Pagri, Angarkha, Dhoti and Gamchha. Traditionally women  wear Sari and Ghagra Choli.
  There are many traditional ornaments of Bhils. Men wear Kada, Bajuband, Chain, ear rings, Kardhani. Women wear variety of ornaments including hansli, ring, Zele-zumke, earring, narniyan (bangle), nathni (nose-jewel) etc. Tattooing is traditional custom among them. Women folks do tattooing generally before marriage.
caption: A Bhil Girl
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