EADHEKS AND T'HEGS; m 



more or lefs attached to a vagrant life, eating the flefh of jackals, lizards^ 

 Sec. When ftationary, they commonly reiide with their families ivx 

 temporary huts, confl:ru6led of rce^ls and leaves, and ere(3ned in jungles 

 and plains. The terra 5>f^-4tf^ is faid to be derived from the Sanfcfit 

 word, ** Badki' " deflruQion,"— The foliowiiog DLftich is taken from a 

 Binder Author, 



" Hit anhit fab hot hjn, Tiilfl dur din pae, 



" Badhso, Badhek mirg baa te rudhir ke det butac.*". 



Which may be rendered — 



O Tolsi, friends become enemies in the days of misforfcune s 

 4cven as the blood of the ftricken deer ferves as a guide to the Himtfmara 

 (dellroyer), 



Thw Badheks of Aly Gher and the Shigal Khors of Goracpur are 

 out-cafts of Muffelman as well as Hindu, tribes; the majoriry however 

 are Rajputs. The records of this office fhew a fubdivilion of clafTes 

 amongd the Badhek:, as the Sudanki, Dudhddhal^ Jaran^ Danpi^ 

 Bhipti, Badharah, PowcLv ^nd ChowaHf the Iwo laft of which arc alf© 

 ihc diftinguilhiDg names of i^^j^w^ tribes. 



Thb Badheks are divided into feparate gangs, each confiding of 

 irom thirty to an hundred followers, headed by a jiimmadar ; and thefe 

 gangs occafionally unite for the purpofe of carrying on their depreda- 

 tions with greater certainty of fuccels and difpatch. They are com- 

 monly protefted by zemindars, who fupport their families during their 

 abfence, and aflift them when ihey are apprehended and get into trou- 

 ble ; becoming fecurity to the Police for their future good behaviour, 

 and employing them odenfibly as ryots ; but, in fad, harboring and 

 Ciicouraging them in their predatory habits, for the fake of the propor« 



