bania

How to use bania in a sentence

• A subcaste of bania, whose name is derived from the same place.

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India--Volume I (of IV) | R.V. Russell

• Another more ambitious legend derives their origin from the bania caste.

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India | R. V. Russell

• And the bania did so, but when he had almost got home he could not help looking behind him to see if there were really any sheep.

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India | R. V. Russell

• They say that once a bania was walking along the road with a cocoanut in his hand when Vishnu met him and asked him what it was.

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India | R. V. Russell

• The bania asked what he should do with it, and Vishnu told him to make a blanket out of it for the god to sit on.

  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India | R. V. Russell