Arkait
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THE TRIBES and CASTES of BENGAL. Ethnographic Glossary. Printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press. 1891. . |
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Arkait
i, (i) A pilot; (ii) An unlicensed purveyor of labourers for the tea districts, who collects emigrants in small batches within their native districts and makes them over for the purpose of transport to recruiters licensed under the Inland Emigration Act or formally authorised by their employers to collect free emigrants. _