Lot Archive

Lot

№ 129

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£110

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp, bronze issue (Baidar Kama Nand Upadhya, S. & T. Corps) good very fine £80-100

Baidar, or Bedar, is the name of a caste of which there are two divisions, the Karnata and the Telinga, who neither eat together nor intermarry. Formerly they were hunters and soldiers by profession; now they are employed in agriculture, labour, and as peons and village policemen (An Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by G. C. Whitworth, London, 1885, refers).