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- Title: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Book IV
- Author : R. V. Russell
- Release Date : January 17, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 8669 KB
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Kumhār, Kumbhār.—The caste of potters, the name being derived from the Sanskrit kumbh, a water-pot. The Kumhārs numbered nearly 120,000 persons in the Central Provinces in 1911 and were most numerous in the northern and eastern or Hindustāni-speaking Districts, where earthen vessels have a greater vogue than in the south. The caste is of course an ancient one, vessels of earthenware having probably been in use at a very early period, and the old Hindu scriptures consequently give various accounts of its origin from mixed marriages between the four classical castes.