Crossword-Solution: BHARS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When cholera rages among the Bhars, Mallans, and Kurmis of India, they take a goat or a buffalo--in either case the animal must be a female, and as black as possible--then having tied some grain, cloves, and red lead in a yellow cloth on its back they turn it out of the village.

Mahoba and the surrounding territories then passed through many vicissitudes, imperfectly recorded in the pages of history, and were ruled from time to time by Musalmâns, Bhars, Khangârs, and others.

Thus it would seem that two separate settlements of the Kolarian races may have occurred; the earlier one would be represented by the Bhars, Bhuiyas, Baigas and kindred tribes who have entirely lost their own languages and identity, and have names given to them by the Hindus; and a later one of the Kols or Mundas and their related tribes, whose languages and tribal religion and organisation, though in a decaying state, can be fully recognised and recorded.

There is some ground for supposing that the Bhonas are an offshoot of the Bharia or Bharia-Bhumia tribe of Jubbulpore, which is itself derived from the Bhars.

The caste is now largely occupational, and is connected with the Bhars, Arakhs, Khatiks and other Dravidian groups of low status.