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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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Malwe Rajput, a small cultivating caste of Chota Nagpur", who say that they came from Malwa and were formerly Khatriyas, but dropped the sacred thread and took to the plough. Uolonel Dalton thought them 'more Aryan than anything else, with A dash of aboriginal blood.' But if this view be correct, it seenls difficult to account for t.heir abandoning the charecterstic Raj put sept names and adopting the totems peculiar to Dravidian tribes "They have Brahmans for priests, worship the bost of Hindu gods, and, like the Kandhs. especially adore those among their ancestresses who became Salis, though in Their present degraued stale they allow of widow-marriage, and a man always takes to wife, by the euston called sagai, his elder brother's widow.'

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Synonyms: Malwe Rajput [Bihar and/or Jharkhand] Groups/subgroups: Bada, Bara, Chota [Bihar and/or J harkhand] I562 Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles Titles: Singh [Bihar and/or Jharkhand] Surnames: Singh [Bihar and/or Jharkhand] Exogamous units/clans: Bag, Kag, Kakusth, Nag (snake), Son [Bihar and/or Jharkhand]