Gobansi

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Gobansi

This section has been extracted from THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. By H.H. RISLEY, INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE, OFFICIER D'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE. Ethnographic Glossary. CALCUTTA: Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. .

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A title of the family of the Rajas of Pachet, in the district of Manbhum, referring to the legend that the founder of the house was deserted in the woods as an infant and was .suckled by a cow.