Seoni

I am originally from a small town called Seoni in Madhya Pradesh.

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It is estimated that about 16,000 children were suffering in Seoni district alone due to fluoride.

The looming water crisis in Madhya Pradesh, heart of India 2007

Seoni a curious rule obtains to the effect that the bodies of those who eat carrion or the flesh of animals dying a natural death should be cremated.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

In Seoni, if a Chamar woman is detected in a misdemeanour with a man of the caste, both parties are taken to the bank of a tank or river, where their heads are shaved in the presence of the caste _panchayat_ or committee.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

In 1911 the Dahaits numbered about 15,000 persons in the Central Provinces, of whom the large majority were found in the Jubbulpore District and the remainder in Bilaspur, Damoh and Seoni.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

_ -- This subcaste numbers nearly 4000 persons, the bulk of whom reside in the Saugor, Damoh, Narsinghpur and Seoni Districts.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Similarly if a man touches his shoe with his hand and says 'I have beaten you,' to a member of any of the lower castes in Seoni, the person so addressed is considered as temporarily out of caste.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Seoni Chamars especially worship the castor-oil plant.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

In some parts of Seoni they had become the terror of the village proprietors, whose houses and granaries they fired if they were in any way reported on or molested.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

The Bagris of Seoni are respectable cultivators and own a number of villages.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894