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

PART I
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A section of Raghuvansis.
_Mirdaha_ .-- A subcaste of Dahait, Khangar, and Nat.

A section of Raghuvansi.

Name used for the mate of a gang of coolies.
_Mir-Dahait._--Title of the Mirdha caste.
_Mirdha_ .-- A small caste found only in the Narsinghpur District.

They are a branch of the Khangar or Dahait caste of Saugor and Damoh.

The names of their exogamous sections tally with those of the Khangars, and they have the same story of their ancestors having been massacred at a fort in Orchha State and of one pregnant woman escaping and hiding under a _kusum_ tree (_Schleichera trijuga_), which consequently they revere.


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