The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c14.s2.20

c14.s2.20

He has also explained the curious result of this viz. the employment of the members of the lower caste Hindus to do some of their essential ritualistic objects. The Bison Marias employ the Hindu carpenters of the plains to carve their wooden funerary posts. Similarly, the wandering smiths, called Loharias, who move with all their family and workshop equipment in one or two carts, set-up their smithies outside the villages and towns. Valentine Ball has left a detailed account of the primitive furnaces used by the Agurihas for smelting the iron ores.² These factors operate to break the isolation of these tribes to some extent.