Lohar

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Lohar

This section has been extracted from THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. By H.H. RISLEY, INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE, OFFICIER D'ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE. Ethnographic Glossary. CALCUTTA: Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. .

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A sub-caste of Barhis in Behar who work only in iron. They are, however, distinct from, and do not intermarry with, the Lohar caste. The latter are probably of Dravidian descent, while the former appear to be an occupational group .

Notes

The Mumammadan blacksmith combines the trade of the carpenter and gunsmith, making gun stocks and locks, but importing the barrels from Mungir, the Birmingham of Eastern India.

He is generally licensed to sell powder and shot, the latter being made by himself in a very primitive manner. Lead is beaten into a rod of the requisite thickness, pieces are then cut off and rolled on a stone, until they assume a spherical form.