bant

Every rich Bant keeps his kambla field consecrated to buffalo-racing, and his pair of racing buffaloes, costing from Rs.

A nice verb, to bant, though not approved of by the dictionary, which scornfully terms it “humorous and colloquial”.

Fines inflicted by the Bant caste council are, I am informed, spent in the celebration of a temple festival.

Banting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.