Dalton in his Ethnology of Bengal states that they form the best cultivators and most substantial people in the state. He found them occupying villages along with aboriginal Gonds and Kandhs but these had nearly all fallen into the position of farm servants to the Kalitas who had extensive fields, well-stocked farm yards and comfortable houses. The pardah system of excluding their females is unknown to them and infant marriage is not practised." (W. W. Hunter: The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1885: Vol. III, p. 86)
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"It is difficult to ascertain the number of true Kayosthos that are in this district; because a numerous tribe called Kolita, who once had great sway here, as they still have in Assam, have in the more civilized parts assumed the title of Kayosthos and conceal their descent from the Kolitas...... There also are many who are called Barondro Kayosthos; but these are of very dubious origin and many of them cultivate with their own hands. Two of the most respectable families of Zamindars, Bordhonkuthi and Kangkinya, are of this kind; but there is reason to suspect that they are Kolitas, as in the division established by Bollal Sen there is no mention of of such a class."
"Indeed this prince (Bhogodotto) is acknowledged to have been the son of an infidel (osur) who was the guardian of the temple of Kamakhya. Whether his father Norok was a Hindu and had penetrated into
