A bride-price called chari, amounting to seven or eight rupees, is usually paid.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
Prior to a marriage a bride-price, known as sukh or chari, and consisting of six rupees with some sugar, turmeric and sesamum oil, must be paid by the parents of the bridegroom to those of the bride; and in the absence of this they will decline to perform the ceremony.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell