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The tribes and castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Volume 1 (of 4)

Note 50 — B

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2. According to Mr. Carnegy,50 however, they spring from a Brâhman, Chuchu Pânrê, and a Dharkârin or Dom woman, and their name is connected with that of the Bânsphor Doms. They worship as their tribal fetish the knife (bânka) with which Doms split the bamboo, and this they now call a poniard, the symbol of Narwar.

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