They appear to be immigrants from Rewah, where the caste is numerically strong, and they are also found in the adjacent Districts of the United Provinces and Bengal.

In the United Provinces they are employed as higher domestic servants and make leaf-plates, while their women act as midwives.

[419] Here they claim kinship with the Goala Ahirs, but in the Central Provinces and Bengal they advance pretensions to be Rajputs.

They have a story, however, which shows their connection with the Ahirs, to the effect that on one occasion Brahma stole Krishna's cows and cowherds.

Krishna created new ones to replace them, exactly similar to those lost, but Brahma subsequently returned the originals, and the Bargahas are the descendants of the artificial cowherds created by Krishna.