Cultural and Social Fabric of the Tribes of Madhya Pradesh

Baigas Baigas are the acknowledged superiors of the other tribes, they are their priests and authority on all points of religious and temporal observances. Giving a detailed account of the Baigas, Sir G.Grierson* states in his treatise The Tribes and Castes ofCentral Provinces, that “the language of the Baigas of Mandla and Balaghat is a form of Chhattisgarhi which clearly…