Adarki

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This article is an extract 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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Adarki

A sub-caste of Baniyas in Behar, most of whom make their living by selling vegetables : others trade in grain, and some cultivate land. They permit widows to marry again, and eat flesh-practices oondemned by the more orthodox members of the trading group of castes. They abstain, however, from wine, and in other respects conform to the standard rules of Hindu¬ism.

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