Human communities the world over have certain definite ways of ordering and regulating the life of individuals and the group. The Rites of Passage are the ways by which such goals are achieved by societies. These rites are socio-religious ceremonies observed on these events of life among the major tribes of Central- Eastern India, is incorporation of a member into the community of both the living and the dead. Here they are as follows A new baby is, as it were, a stranger to the community and does not yet belong to

it, till after the name-giving. In this ritual, a name for the infant is sought by rice and- water divination. An elder takes his seat with a shallow vessel (generally a leaf cup) containing water. Another leaf cup contains a handful of paddy grains close by. He takes a grain keeping in mind the name of the child, removes its husk with his fingernails and gently drops it to float on the still surface of water

in the leaf cup. It is in the name of God.