Lohar

But in most Districts the Kumhar ranks not much below the Barhai and Lohar, that is in what I have designated the grade of village menials above the impure and below the cultivating castes.

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Barhai and Lohar are village menials, their status is said to be the same, and Brahmans do not take water from Lohars.

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In Berar again Mr. Kitts states [546] that a Bhoi considers it pollution to eat or drink at the house of a Lohar (blacksmith),

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Lohar (blacksmith) and Kumhar (potter), and may be derived from members of these castes who became Binjhwars or from Binjhwars who took up the occupations.

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Hitherto such woodwork as the villagers wanted for agriculture has been made by the Lohar or blacksmith, while the country cots, the only wooden article of furniture in their houses, could be fashioned by their own hands or by the Gond woodcutter.

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At a Binjhwar wedding the presence of a person belonging to each of the Lohar and Kumhar septs is essential, the reason being probably the estimation in which the two handicrafts were held when the Binjhwars first learnt them from their Hindu neighbours.

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Lohar and Jogi Dewars may be so called either because their ancestors belonged to these castes, or because they have adopted the profession of blacksmiths and beggars respectively.

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Lohar, Dudh Kawaria, Bhil, Banka and Majhi, indicating that members of these castes have become Binjhwars and have founded families.

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His father, who was living in obscurity in his native town, was discovered to be a Lohar or blacksmith.

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-- A subcaste of Lohar and Nai, from Lanji in Balaghat.

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