ABSTRACT
Few Hindus in Eastern Bengal take any pleasure in sport, and only a few low caste men ever fire a gun. The Muhammadan, on the other hand, is often a keen sportsman, shooting deer and stalking paddy birds, rails, and other water birds. Rich families, again, often keep one or two Shíkárís to supply their tables with all the common marsh birds and with an occasional deer or hare. The Mír-shíkárí Bediyás and the Binds are, however, the only classes in Eastern Bengal who live by the game they kill.
