Gaddi and biswa: the seat that chooses its heir
When a holding had no son, it adopted one - and the heir took the holding's surname, not the other way round. A little-documented village custom, written down; with a note on the biswa scale.
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The genealogy your family recites once a year
Every shraddha names ancestors aloud, with gotra, generation by generation. Pitru Paksha is an open family archive - if someone in the room writes it down.