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The name of a caste analogous to, or identical with, the Bhat, following the profession of bards, heralds, and genealogists, and held in like estimation; so that their personal security is considered sufficient for engage¬ments of the most important description, the breach of which involves the death of the surety or of some of his family. They also subsist by canying grain, salt, groceries, and the like. | The name of a caste analogous to, or identical with, the Bhat, following the profession of bards, heralds, and genealogists, and held in like estimation; so that their personal security is considered sufficient for engage¬ments of the most important description, the breach of which involves the death of the surety or of some of his family. They also subsist by canying grain, salt, groceries, and the like. | ||
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This article is an extract from
THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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Charan, east India
The name of a caste analogous to, or identical with, the Bhat, following the profession of bards, heralds, and genealogists, and held in like estimation; so that their personal security is considered sufficient for engage¬ments of the most important description, the breach of which involves the death of the surety or of some of his family. They also subsist by canying grain, salt, groceries, and the like.
