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While Jagjivan Ram, the then Union Food and Agricultural Minister recommended that the barga system should be abolished immediately and bargadars should be declared as ‘tenants’ Statesman, Nov. 28, 1969 So Ladejeinsky, Indira, Jagjivam Ram like people too outsmarted our “firebrand Marxist” Hare Krishna Konar in the prescription of land reforms.

A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist) Abhay N 2007

Thus a man of the Nag _got_, Padhan _barga_ and Hindolsai

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

This includes three kinds of divisions or sections, the _got_ or sept, the _barga_ or family title and the _mitti_ or earth from which they sprang, that is, the name of the original village of the clan.

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

Jorias and Khuntias of the same _barga_ cannot intermarry, but in the case of some other subdivisions of the _barga_, as between those who eat rice at one festival in the year and those eating it at two, marriage is allowed between members of the two subdivisions, thus splitting the exogamous group into two.

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

Besides the prohibition of marriage within the same _barga_, the union of first cousins is sometimes forbidden.

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

The _bargas_ are much more numerous than the totemistic septs, and marriage either within the _barga_ or within the sept is forbidden.

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

Savars each _barga_ has the two further divisions of Joria and Khuntia, the Jorias being those who bury or burn their dead near a _jor_ or brook, and the Khuntias those who bury or burn them near a _khunt_ or old tree.

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

THE Left Front government is reportedly preparing a Bill, to be presented in the next Assembly session, for buying barga-free land from owners, paying up to 25 per cent more than the market price.

The Statesman 2010

Bhumidaan Prakalpa is an upgraded version of an ongoing scheme of buying barga-free land at a cost that is 10 per cent higher than the market price.

The Statesman 2010

As for the farmers, the CPI (M) cadres incited the dependent cultivators (barga-chashi) against the land owners.

Kafila 2009