Note 15 — D. (continued 2)
Reading edition
In Central India a common name for them is Hatkar. The tale runs that a Dhângar of the Mughal Viceroy’s body-guard used to salute his master every day, but never to wait after he made his bow. In spite of remonstrances he continued the practice, and as a punishment the Viceroy ordered the door through which the Dhângar came to be closed with swords. The Dhângar regardless of wounds passed on and made his bow. The Viceroy was so pleased that he called him Hatkar or “stubborn.”—Berâr Gazetteer, 200; Bombay Gazetteer, XVI, 56. ↑