Volume 3 / Part 3 — Kahār
Reading edition
1. Origin and statistics.
2. The doli or palanquin.
3. Female bearers.
4. Indoor servants.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This article is compiled from papers by Mr. Sarat Chandra Sanyāl, Sessions Judge, Nāgpur, and Mr. Abdul Samād, Tahsīldār, Sohāgpur.Note 2 · Eastern India, ii. 426.Note 3 · Ibidem, iii. pp. 119, 120.Note 4 · Moor, Hindu Infanticide, p. 91.Note 5 · Yule and Burnell’s Hobson-Jobson, Crooke’s edition, s.v. Boy.Note 6 · Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P., art. Kahār.Note 7 · Private Life of an Eastern King, p. 207.Note 8 · Ibidem, pp. 200, 202.Note 9 · Stevens, In India, p. 313.Note 10 · Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Kahār.Note 11 · Tribes and Castes of Bengal, ibidem.Note 12 · S.v. Boy.Note 13 · Kahār,1 Bhoi.—The caste of palanquin-bearers and watermen of northern India. No scientific distinction can be made between the Kahārs and DhNote 14 · The proper occupation of the Kahār is that of doli or litter-bearer. When carts could not travel owing to the absence of roads this was the Note 15 · As a means of conveyance the litter would be held sacred by primitive people, and Mr. Crooke gives an instance of the regard paid to it: “AtNote 16 · At royal courts women were employed to carry the litters of the king and the royal ladies into the inner precincts of the palace, the male bNote 17 · From being a palanquin-bearer the Kahār became the regular indoor servant of Hindu households. Originally of low caste, and derived from theNote 18 · As the Kahār was the common indoor servant in Hindu houses so apparently he came to be employed in the same capacity by the English. But he