Budbudke: Deccan

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Budbudke

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

Budbudke — a very low class of beggars, speaking Marathi and Telugu, and deriving their name from the bud bud (gurgle-like) sound of the daphada (a sort of drum), which they beat while asking for alms. They are both Hindus and Muhammadans. Belh classes are periodical wanderers, going on their rounds of mendicancy during the dry season, and returning to their homes when the rains set in. The Hindu Budbudkes obtain alms by singing the names of Hindu deities to the sound of a hollow brass ring which they wear on their right thumb. They wear a rudraksha necklace and a semi-lunar brass plate on their heads. In matters of diet they have few fcruples, and eat the flesh of lizards, jackals, field rats, wild and domestic hogs and of animals that have died a natural death. The Muhammadan beggars, on their begging rounds, have a bag (jholi), a bell, and two sticks. To one stick is fastened the jholi and the bell, which rings at every step ; the other stick is kept to drive away the dogs that bark at them at the sound of the bell. They are under a superior called Gudusha Fakir, who lives in Martur, six miles from Shahabad. In religion and ceremonials they conform to the ordinary Muhammadan customs.