Akhara, caste

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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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Akhara

A sama,j or local group of the Sandilya gotra of the Paschatya Baidik Brahmans in Bengal.

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