Caste and Race in India c6.17

c6.17

A small number of these major groups are definitely known to be the outcome of miscegenation. Some of the members of the higher castes of Orissa and the Kayasth immigrants into Orissa keep maids of Bhandari and other clean castes and treat them as their concubines. The issue of such unions is known by the name of Shagirdapesha.¹ The Bhilalas are well known to be the offspring of Rajput males and Bhil women.² Vidur, a Maratha caste of the Central Provinces, is wholly formed by individuals of mixed descent.³