Pardhi

-- Subcaste of Pardhi, meaning a man who stalks deer behind

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

The Takaris are connected with the Pardhi caste of professional hunters and fowlers and may be a branch of them.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

A Pardhi may not swear by a dog, a cat or a squirrel.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

The idea of the ordeal is apparently to decide the question whether her condition was caused by a Pardhi or an outsider.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

The Pardhi has also a whistle made of deer-horn, with which he can imitate the call of the birds.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

A Pardhi will never kill or sell a dog and they will not hunt wild dogs even if money is offered to them.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

A Pardhi, with the exception of members of the Sesodia clan, must never sleep on a cot,

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

A Pardhi has also theoretically a care for the preservation of game.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

A man of the low Pardhi caste of hunters must never have his hair touched by a razor after he has once killed

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

Among the names of other castes are Bopcha or Korku, Bhoyar (a caste of cultivators), Pardhi

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894