ABSTRACT
This is one of the largest and most scattered fisher tribes of Northern India. In Bengal they number 67,300 persons, chiefly congregated in Maldah and Murshídábád, while in the nine Eastern, districts only 450 are returned. In Bihár as many as 41,686 are registered being massed in Patna and Mungír, while the Santal pergunnahs contain 17,576. According to Buchanan44 Nator in Rájsháhí was, in his day, the centre of the tribe; but Maldah now returns more than any other district of Bengal.
