The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2

by R. V. Russell

List of Paragraphs

• [1. Introductory notice.]
• [2. The Badhak dacoits.]
• [3. Instances of dacoities.]
• [4. Further instances of dacoities.]
• [5. Disguise of religious mendicants.]
• [6. Countenance and support of landowners.]
• [7. Pride in their profession.]
• [8. Caste rules and admission of outsiders.]
• [9. Religion: offerings to ancestors.]
• [10. The wounded haunted by spirits.]
• [11. Pious funeral observances.]
• [12. Taking the omens.]
• [13. Suppression of dacoity.]
• [14. The Badhaks or Baoris at the present time.]
• [15. Lizard-hunting.]
• [16. Social observances.]
• [17. Criminal practices.]