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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV)

PART I
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Title of Kharia.
_Gandhi_ .-- A scent-seller.

(From _gandh_, a Sanskrit word for scent.) Synonym of Atari.

A section of Maheshir Bania.
_Gandli_ .-- The Telugu caste of oil-pressers, numbering about 3000 persons in the Central Provinces, in the Chanda, Nagpur and Bhandara Districts.

They are immigrants from the Godavari District of Madras and have been settled in the Central Provinces for some generations.

Here many of them have prospered so that they have abandoned the hereditary calling and become landowners, traders and moneylenders.


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