Note 57 — Chapter XI · GENERAL.
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The boys who take an active part in the Holi celebrations are known as geraiyās or holiās. For two or three nights before the Holi they steal fuel for the Holi fire and beat and abuse those who try to prevent them from so doing. They also recite coarse songs and play with dirt and mud freely. Parties of them go from shop to shop and obtain by force dates and fried gram.57