Note 98 — IV. CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS.[71]
Reading edition
The Domra or Dóm, one of the lowest Indian castes, and supposed to represent one of the aboriginal races. They are to this day, in Upper India, the persons generally employed to remove carcases, and to do the like jobs; sometimes also as hangmen. In the Dekkan they seem, according to Dubois (p. 468), who calls them Dumbars, to be often tumblers, conjurors, and the like.