Volume 2 / Part 2 — Beria, Bedia.
Reading edition
[Bibliography: Sir H. Risley’s Tribes and Castes of Bengal; Rājendra Lāl Mitra in Memoirs, Anthropological Society of London, iii. p. 122; Mr. Crooke’s Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh; Mr. Kennedy’s Criminal Classes of the Bombay Presidency; Major Gunthorpe’s Criminal Tribes; Mr. Gayer’s Lectures on some Criminal Tribes of the Central Provinces; Colonel Sleeman’s Report on the Badhak or Bāgri Dacoits.]
1. Historical notice.
2. Criminal tendencies in the Central Provinces.
3. Social customs.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · See article on Badhak.Note 2 · Kennedy, p. 247.Note 3 · Crooke, art. Beria.Note 4 · The following particulars are taken from a note by Mr. K. N. Dāte, Deputy Superintendent, Reformatory School, Jubbulpore.Note 5 · A caste of gipsies and thieves who are closely connected with the Sānsias. In 1891 they numbered 906 persons in the Central Provinces, distrNote 6 · In other respects also the Berias of Bengal appear to be more respectable than the remainder of the caste, obtaining their livelihood by meaNote 7 · As already stated, the women are professional prostitutes, but these do not marry, and on arrival at maturity they choose the life which the