; 
, 
: 
; 
| 
| 
Vol. VII, No. 10.] The Gehara Sec. of Kunchbandia Kanjars. 673 
[N.S.] 
between the Nats and Sansias and Kanjars. As an instance 
e y so 
as they gradually settle down, throw off their old gypsy 
habits and adopt Hindu traditions, Mr. Crooke says,' ‘‘It is 
significant that the Bhains section (of Kanjars) of Buduan 
have changed their name into Baiswar, and are beginning to 
4 > 
claim a connection with the Bais Rajputs. 
2. BAID BHAINS. Functional and partly Totemic, 
an offshoot, I believe, of the Bhains. 
aid or Vaid. a physician, an honorific title indicating 
the reputation the Kanjars like all Gypsy tribes have in the 
dispensing of quack medicines, simples, love philtres and 
so forth—the ingredients Geharas commonly use being jungle 
herbs, oil extracted from sand lizards and other reptiles and 
animals, Jackal’s fat, and Hyaena’s whiskers. The whole 
the Gulgulias and others in Bengal, act as operators, the 
method employed being as follows: 
About 1 }inches of the tip of a cow’s horn with a minute hole 
at the point, a small lump of wax, and a sacrificator or rough 
lancet complete the outfit. The patient, we will suppose, has a 
wallah can adapt himself to the requirements of the West and 
is not above picking up some of the benefits of Angrezi rule, I 
would digress further and mention the case of a genuine Gehara 
Kanjar who was introduced to me with pride as an Angrezi 
bolnewallah (a speaker of English). He had somehow, as a 
boy, got in touch with a British Regiment in Nasirabad (Raj- 
putana), and being an adept singiwallah he applied his *‘ art of 
1 Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, Vol. III, p. 138. 
