The Bharias are usually farmservants and field-labourers, and their
services in these capacities are in much request. They are hardy and
industrious, and so simple that it is an easy matter for their masters
to involve them in perpetual debt, and thus to keep them bound to
service from generation to generation. They have no understanding
of accounts, and the saying, 'Pay for the marriage of a Bharia and
he is your bond-slave for ever,' sufficiently explains the methods
adopted by their employers and creditors.