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NAMASUDRA

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 157 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAMASUDRA  , the name adopted by the See also:

great See also:caste or tribe who inhabit the swamps of Eastern See also:Bengal, See also:India, whom the higher castes are wont to designate by the opprobrious See also:term of Chandal . Their number in Igo' exceeded 2 millions; but if the cognate Pods and also the Mahommedans of the same ethnical stock were to be added, the See also:total would probably reach 11 millions .

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