A’san, Asin-Tanti
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THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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A’san, Asin-Tanti
AswiniTanti, the highest sub-caste of weavers in Bengal, who claim to be the original stock from which the other sub-castes have diverged. Asin-Tanti women do not wear nose-rings, and this peculiarity is regarded as the chief distinction of the sub-casie. See Tanti.