_Bania, Umre._--This Hindu subcaste belongs to Damoh and
Jubbulpore. They are perhaps the same as the Ummar Banias of the United
Provinces, who reside in the Meerut, Agra and Kumaon Divisions. The
name Umre is found as a subdivision of several castes in the Central
Provinces, as the Telis and others, and is probably derived from
some town or tract of country in northern or central India, but no
identification has been made. Mr. Bhimbhai Kirparam states that in
Gujarat the Ummar Banias are also known as Bagaria from the Bagar
or wild country, comprised in the Dongarpur and Pertabgarh States of
Rajputana, where considerable numbers of them are still settled. Their
headquarters is at Sagwara, near Dongarpur. [170] In Damoh the Umre
Banias formerly cultivated the _al_ plant, [171] which yielded a
well-known dye, and hence they lost caste, as in soaking the roots
of the plant to extract the dye the numerous insects in them are
necessarily destroyed. The Dosar subcaste [172] are a branch of the
Umre, who allow widow-remarriage.