Basor

Two or three of the above names appear to be those of other low castes from which the Basor caste may have been recruited, perhaps at times when a strong demand existed for bamboo-workers.

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A bamboo at once sprang up on the spot, and from this the Basor made the first winnowing fan.

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The Dhobi is not so impure as the Chamar and Basor, and if a member of the higher castes touches him inadvertently it is considered sufficient to wash the face and hands only and not the clothes.

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Basor women are not permitted to wear nose-rings on pain of exclusion from caste.

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According to the old rule, if a Brahman touches a man of an impure caste, as a Chamar (tanner) or Basor (basket-maker), he should bathe and change his loin-cloth, and if he touches a sweeper he should change his sacred thread.

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Another legend relates that in the beginning there were no bamboos, and the first Basor took the serpent which Siva wore round his neck and going to a hill planted it with its head in the ground.

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Basor, driving a large four-horse waggon loaded with supplies for us.

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Besides, with the exception of Basor who had driven the team down from Salt Lake to the

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The same afternoon Basor went away taking letters from us with him to be sent to Salt Lake.

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Basor is a corruption of Bansphor, 'a breaker of bamboos. '

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