1912.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. cix 
12. Bhatia Bhavadeva of Bengal. By Monmowan Cuakra- 
VARTI 
These papers will be published in a subsequent number of 
the Journal. 
13. The Alkaloidal principles and omar properties of 
‘““ Dhanmarua or Chat-chanda.’’—By Upenpra Nar 
BRAHMACHARI 
This paper + will not be published in the Journal. 
14. Primitive Exogamy and the Caste System—By W. 
KIRKPATRICK. 
Sirkhi Wala—‘ or the reed-mat folk.’’ ‘* He that lives 
South-Eastern Punjab. As their names imply, they are most 
of them allied to what Nesfield would classify as the hunting 
state. They are all branches of a great nomadic race and in- 
clude the Kiunchband Kanjar, makers of weavers’ brushes; 
Nats and Bazigars, acrobats and tumblers; Sdmpéras or snake 
men ; Sigligars or itinerant knife-sharpeners ; hase execu- 
Pha 
tioners or skinners; Phanswar, strangler or noose : Qulandars, 
peace raremae (identical with our old fcistie “The Three 
Calendars ’’); Gohdrs or iguana-catchers; Sankat or stone-cut- 
ter; fis Bihan. the Badhak; the Bhati ; the Baheliya who is 
a fowler and hunter ; the Beriya or Bediya who trades on his 
women and teaches them to sing and dance. 
The fact that none of these tribes intermarry is used, par- 
ticularly by those groups of predatory habits, as an ingenious 
argument to prove disassociation with one another. The fact, 
however, that none of these tribes do intermarry points to 
nothing more than that they are Endogamous sections of the 
one original family and at the same time disposes of a vulgar 
fallacy that a tribe or camp which will not give its daughters 
in ee to another tribe must therefore be of a totally 
different caste. 
The eee ‘e siege up into various endogamous sec- 
tions or clans encouraged by modern influences is in active 
gress at the nantes day. An equally interesting fact to the 
Sociological Anthropologist is the existence of xogamy among 
all these casteless tribes. Each Endogamous section is divided 
up into several oan septs or sub-sections. These facts 
surely point to a conclusion, which without any “iSite 
argument enables us to trace the present Hindu caste system 
back to the primeval laws which required and instituted and 
enforced a vigorous and rigid observance of the Exogamic law. 
dogamous circles which we can show to have an occupational, 
