Masalchi

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Masalchi

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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 title of Bagdis, probably arising from their employment as palanquin-bearers one of the duties of a bearer of being to carry a torch . It is also possible that the term may denote an office held by the Bagdis caste under one of the Rajas of Western Bengal.

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