And in the rush cotton picking season, we kids and Mama picked almost all of the cotton, while Papa took it to town, got it Ginned and then sold it.
"The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography"
Johnson, Clarence Edgar
Twenty thousand bales of Ginned cotton went yearly to England, New and Old; and men that came there bankrupt made money and grew rich.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Bahnas numbered 48,000 persons in the Central Provinces and Berar in 1911. The large increase in the number of ginning-factories has ruined the Bahna's trade of cleaning hand-Ginned cotton, and as no distinction attaches to the name of Bahna it is possible that members of the caste who have taken to other occupations may have abandoned it and returned themselves simply as Muhammadans.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell