Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1901-02, bronze issue (Bania Ram Rakha, No. 2 Mountain Bty.) good very fine £40-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the collection of Angela and the late Douglas Bertram.

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The Banias are a cast of Hindu traders whose caste imposes a purely vegetarian diet. They were typically bazaar merchants or shop keepers-cum-money lenders, who might also have run canteens in some military units or even have supplied grain.