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<p>Created page with &quot;This article is an extract from {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot; |- |colspan=&quot;0&quot;|&lt;div style=&quot;font-size:100%&quot;&gt; &#039;&#039;&#039;THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL.&#039;&#039;&#039; &lt;br/&gt; By H.H. RISLEY,&lt;br/&gt; INDIAN C...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This article is an extract from<br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> <br /> |colspan=&quot;0&quot;|&lt;div style=&quot;font-size:100%&quot;&gt;<br /> '''THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL.''' &lt;br/&gt; <br /> By H.H. RISLEY,&lt;br/&gt; <br /> INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE, OFFICIER D'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE. &lt;br/&gt; <br /> <br /> Ethnographic Glossary. &lt;br/&gt; <br /> <br /> CALCUTTA: &lt;br/&gt; ''Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press.''&lt;br/&gt; 1891. .&lt;/div&gt;<br /> |}<br /> NOTE 1: Indpaedia neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Readers who wish to add fresh information can create a Part II of this article. The general rule is that if we have nothing nice to say about communities other than our own it is best to say nothing at all.<br /> <br /> NOTE 2: While reading please keep in mind that all articles in this series have been scanned from a very old book. Therefore, footnotes have got inserted into the main text of the article, interrupting the flow. Readers who spot scanning errors are requested to report the correct spelling to the Facebook page, [http://www.facebook.com/Indpaedia Indpaedia.com]. All information used will be duly acknowledged.<br /> <br /> [[Category:India|A]]<br /> [[Category:Communities|A]]<br /> <br /> =Agradina=<br /> Agmdani, Agrasraddhi, a degraded sub-caste of Brahmans, ranking slightly above the Kcharji. They read mantms at the cremation of Brahmans and members of the Nava-Sakha, and take gifts (dan) at the first sraddh on the eleventh or thirty-first day after death, and at the subsequent monthly sraddhas for a year, after which time no more presents are given. Pure Brahmans will eat sweetmeats with the Agradani, but not rice. In Bengal they bear the ironical designations of Maha-Brcl,hman, Maha-purohit, MaM-sraddhi, Maha-puttra, Marui-pora Brahman and, in the rare instances when they have a smattering of Sanskrit, Pandit. In Behar they are called Maha¬Brahman and Kiintaha.</div>

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