The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV

The Tribes and Castes of the
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by R.V. Russell

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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
By
R.V. Russell Of the Indian Civil Service Superintendent of
Ethnography, Central Provinces Assisted by Rai Bahadur Hira Lal
Extra Assistant Commissioner
Published Under the Orders of the Central Provinces Administration
In Four Volumes Vol. IV.
Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London.
1916

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV
Articles on Castes and Tribes of the Central Provinces in Alphabetical
Order
The articles which are considered to be of most general interest are
shown in capitals
Kumhar (Potter) 3 Kunbi (Cultivator) 16 Kunjra (Greengrocer) 50
Kuramwar (Shepherd) 52 Kurmi (Cultivator) 55 Lakhera (Worker in
lac) 104 Lodhi (Landowner and cultivator) 112 Lohar (Blacksmith) 120
Lorha (Growers of san-hemp) 126 Mahar (Weaver and labourer) 129
Mahli (Forest tribe) 146 Majhwar (Forest tribe) 149 Mal (Forest tribe)
153 Mala (Cotton-weaver and labourer) 156 Mali (Gardener and
vegetable-grower) 159 Mallah (Boatman and fisherman) 171 Mana
(Forest tribe, cultivator) 172 Manbhao (Religious mendicant) 176
Mang (Labourer and village musician) 184 Mang-Garori (Criminal
caste) 189 Manihar (Pedlar) 193 Mannewar (Forest tribe) 195 Maratha
(Soldier, cultivator and service) 198 Mehtar (Sweeper and scavenge)
215 Meo (Tribe) 233 Mina or Deswali (Non-Aryan tribe, cultivator)

235 Mirasi (Bard and genealogist) 242 Mochi (Shoemaker) 244 Mowar
(Cultivator) 250 Murha (Digger and navvy) 252 Nagasia (Forest tribe)
257 Nahal (Forest tribe) 259 Nai (Barber) 262 Naoda (Boatman and
fisherman) 283 Nat (Acrobat) 286 Nunia (Salt-refiner; digger and
navvy) 294 Ojha (Augur and soothsayer) 296 Oraon (Forest tribe) 299
Paik (Soldier, cultivator) 321 Panka (Labourer and village watchman)
324 Panwar Rajput (Landowner and cultivator) 330 Pardhan (Minstrel
and priest) 352 Pardhi (Hunter and fowler) 359 Parja (Forest tribe) 371
Pasi (Toddy-drawer and labourer) 380 Patwa (Maker of silk braid and
thread) 385 Pindari (Freebooter) 388 Prabhu (Writer and clerk) 399
Raghuvansi (Cultivator) 403 Rajjhar (Agricultural labourer) 405 Rajput
(Soldier and landowner) 410 Rajput Clans
Baghel. Bagri. Bais. Baksaria. Banaphar. Bhadauria. Bisen. Bundela.
Chandel. Chauhan. Dhakar. Gaharwar. Gaur. Haihaya. Huna.
Kachhwaha. Nagvansi. Nikumbh. Paik. Parihar. Rathor. Sesodia.
Solankhi. Somvansi. Surajvansi. Tomara. Yadu.
Rajwar (Forest tribe) 470 Ramosi (Village watchmen and labourers,
formerly thieves) 472 Rangrez (Dyer) 477 Rautia (Forest tribe and
cultivators, formerly soldiers) 479 Sanaurhia (Criminal thieving caste)
483 Sansia (Vagrant criminal tribe) 488 Sansia (Uria) (Mason and
digger) 496 Savar (Forest tribe) 500 Sonjhara (Gold-washer) 509 Sudh
(Cultivator) 514 Sunar (Goldsmith and silversmith) 517 Sundi (Liquor
distiller) 534 Tamera (Coppersmith) 536 Taonla (Soldier and labourer)
539 Teli (Oilman) 542 Thug (Criminal community of murderers by
strangulation) 558 Turi (Bamboo-worker) 588 Velama (Cultivator) 593
Vidur (Village accountant, clerk and writer) 596 Waghya (Religious
mendicant) 603 Yerukala (Criminal thieving caste) 606

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME IV
97. Potter and his wheel 4 98. Group of Kunbis 16 99. Figures of
animals made for Pola festival 40 100. Hindu boys on stilts 42 101.
Throwing stilts into the water at the Pola festival 46 102. Carrying out
the dead 48 103. Pounding rice 60 104. Sowing 84 105. Threshing 86

106. Winnowing 88 107. Women grinding wheat and husking rice 90
108. Group of women in Hindustani dress 92 109. Coloured Plate:
Examples of spangles worn by women on the forehead 106 110.
Weaving: sizing the warp 142 111. Winding thread 144 112. Bride and
bridegroom with marriage crowns 166 113. Bullocks drawing water
with mot 170 114. Mang musicians with drums 186 115. Statue of
Maratha leader, Bimbaji Bhonsla, in armour 200 116. Image of the god
Vishnu as Vithoba 248 117. Coolie women with babies slung at the
side 256 118. Hindu men showing the choti or scalp-lock 272 119.
Snake-charmer with cobras 292 120. Transplanting rice 340 121. Group
of Pardhans 352 122. Little girls playing 400 123. Gujarati girls doing
figures with strings and sticks 402 124. Ornaments 524 125. Teli's
oil-press 544 126. The Goddess Kali 574 127. Waghya mendicants 604

PRONUNCIATION
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