The proper occupation of the caste is to parch rice. The rice is husked
and then parched in an earthen pan, and subsequently bruised with a
mallet in a wooden mortar. When prepared in this manner it is called
_cheora_. The Dhuris also act as _khidmatgars_ or household servants,
but the members of the Badharia subcaste refuse to do this work. Some
members of the caste are fishermen, and others grow melons and sweet
potatoes. Considering that they live in Chhattisgarh, the caste are
somewhat scrupulous in the matter of food, neither eating fowls nor
drinking liquor. The Kawardha Dhuris, however, who are later immigrants
than the others, do not observe these restrictions, the reason for
which may be that the Dhuris think it necessary to be strict in the
matter of food, so that no one may object to take parched rice from
them. Rawats and Gonds take food from their hands in some places,
and their social status in Chhattisgarh is about equivalent to that
of the Rawats or Ahirs. A man of the caste who kills a cow or gets
vermin in a wound must go to Amarkantak to bathe in the Nerbudda.