Crossword-Solution: BASTAR 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

South of the plain lies another expanse of hill and plateau comprised in the zarmindari estates of Chanda and the Chhattisgarh Division and the Bastar and Kanker Feudatory States.

The Parjas appear to represent the earliest Gond settlers in Bastar, who were subjugated by later Gond and Raj-Gond immigrants.

Several castes are of mixed descent, as the Vidurs, the descendants of Brahman fathers and mothers of other castes; the Bhilalas, by Rajput fathers and Bhil mothers; the Chauhans, Audhelias, Khangars and Dhakars of Bastar, probably by Hindu fathers and women of various indigenous tribes; the Kirars of mixed Rajput descent, and others.

They are now mainly farmservants, as the name denotes, but where they hold land, as in Bastar, they rank higher, almost as a good cultivating caste.

The prohibition against ploughing after the midday meal was probably promulgated out of compassion for animals and was already in force among the Gonds of Bastar.