baiga
baigaOne of the local names, beside gunia and disari, under which the village ritual specialist's work is done in central India. The Chhattisgarh statute defines that office by function rather than by title, so a baiga stands inside its definition of an ojhā.
Where this term appears
- The harm ledger Treatise
Chapter 19 introduced him under his own name, alongside the baiga and the gunia , and established the structure that governs him: the healer's power and the witch's power are held across this literature to be t…