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The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

1935

According to Risley' Some of the leading Bhaiya families have come to be Chiefs of the petty States of Orissa and have merged their identity in the claim to quasi-Rajput descent." Similarly from the depressed Bhaiya serfs of the Palamau District and the still more depressed Masahar Bhuiyas of the Patna District to the respectable agricultural Ghatwar Bhuiyas of the Hazaribagh District and the s [...] The Orissa States form the centre of the southern section of the tribe whereas the Chata-Nagpur Districts of Palamau and Hazaribagh and the adjoining Bihar District of Gaya form the centre of what may be called the Northern section of the tribe. [...] Hence their name of Bliiimi-hino or 'Land-tillers' In Barendra or Northern Bengal the people still speak of the Briro-Bhriiyris as the former rulers of the country and I believe they refer to the well-known dynasty of the Pal Rajas whose caste or tribal name is never mentioned in the inscriptions.' The discarded theory of the identity of the aboriginal Bhriiya tribe with the historical Baro-B [...] He is the favourite god of the Hinduized BhaiyaHanuman the general of the ape army was Pawan-ka-put 'the son of the wind' ; and the Bhuiyas to the south of Singbham call themselves Pawanbans the children of the wind to this day. [...] From the white of this egg sprang the first ancestor of the Purans from its membranous coating the progenitor of the Savaras from its shell the first ancestor of the Kharias and from the yolk the ancestor of the Bharija Rajas of Mayarbharija.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
132
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v K.P. Jayaswal, J.F.W. James, A. Banerji view
Report of Anthropological Work in 1932-33:The Bhuiyas and their Congeners
1-20 Sarat Roy view
Sanskrit Palm-Leaf Mss. in Tibet
21-43 Tripitakjicharya Sankjityayan view
“Elements of Mithra-Cult Appropriated by Christianity”
44-60 K. Giebens view
The Revenue Administration of Mir Qasim in Bihar and Bengal
61-73 Nandalal Chatterji view
A Votive Stop a from Bihar
74-76 O. Stein view
Chandasena of the Kaumudlmahotsava
77-77 Dasharatha Sharma view
Explorations in Sind
78-84 A. Banerji-Sastri view
The proceedings of a meeting of the Council of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society held in the Society's office on Sunday March 3 193J at 8-30 a.m.
85-87 J. L. Hill view
Proceedings of the animal meeting of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society held in the Physics Lecture Theatre of Patna Science College on Friday March 29 1935
88-89 unknown view
Annual Report for 1934-35
90-92 J. L. Hill view
Statement of Accounts from April 1 1934 to February 28 1935
93-95 S. Bahadur view
His Excellency the President in Introducing Prof Heras lecturer of the evening Said
96-96 unknown view
Transliteration of the Devandgari Alphabet Adopted in the Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society from 1925
97-98 unknown view
A Dialect of Bhojapuri
33-58 unknown view

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