They obtained estates in Saugor and a Dangi dynasty formerly governed part of the District, and they are now highly respectable cultivators.

The Minas or Deswalis belonged to the predatory Mina tribe of Rajputana, but a section of them have obtained possession of the land in Hoshangabad and rank as a good agricultural caste.

The Lodhas of the United Provinces are placed lowest among the agricultural castes by Mr.Nesfield, who describes them as little better than a forest tribe.

The name is perhaps derived from the bark of the _lodh_ tree, which was collected by the Lodhas of northern India and sold for use as a dyeing agent.

In the Central Provinces the name has been changed to Lodhi, and they are said to have been brought into the District by a Raja of the Gond-Rajput dynasty of Mandla in the seventeenth century, and given large grants of waste land in the interior in order that they might clear it of forest.