229/364 A section of Raghuvansis. Name used for the mate of a gang of coolies. 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. |