Hence there is a proverb: 'The king's son draws water and the water-bearer's son sits on the throne,'-- similar intrigues on the part of high-born women with their servants being not unknown.

The Kahar or palanquin-bearer was probably the same caste as the Dhimar.

Landowners would maintain a gang of Kahars to carry them on journeys, allotting to such men plots of land rent-free.

Our use of the word 'bearer' in the sense of a body-servant has developed from the palanquin-bearer who became a personal attendant on his master.

Well-to-do families often have a Nai or barber as a hereditary family servant, the office descending in the barber's family.