They are Muhammadans, but worship sarasvati and at their marriages offer up a he-goat to Gaji and Gandha, the two sons of the original Bhat, who became a Muhammadan.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
The Pundita Ramabai sarasvati, in her agonizing book, The High Caste Hindu Woman, writes with bitter sarcasm, that "even the wild animals are so intelligent and of such refined taste that they mock at British law and almost always steal girls to satisfy their hunger."
"Primitive Love and Love-Stories"
Henry Theophilus Finck
To a Hindoo widow, says Ramabai sarasvati, death is "a thousand times more welcome than her miserable existence."
"Primitive Love and Love-Stories"
Henry Theophilus Finck