ABSTRACT
This is one of the utterly vile castes of Bengal, living in the outskirts of villages near rivers, where their neat and tidy hovels always attract attention. They are very reserved and uncommunicative, but there can be little doubt they were originally `Dôms. In Rangpúr, and throughout the valley of the Brahmaputra, they are still designated `Dôm-Pa_tní, and in Bengal this is applied to them as a term of abuse. Their other titles are Gangaputra, Ghá_t-mánjhí, or simply Mánjhí.
