In Sarguja, Bargaha is used as a title by Ahirs, while in Rewah the Bargahs are looked on as the bastard offspring of Baghel Rajputs.

Dr.Buchanan writes of them as follows: [420] "In Gorakhpur the Rajput chiefs have certain families of Ahirs, the women of which act as wet-nurses to their children, while the men attend to their persons.

These families are called Bargaha; they have received, of course, great favours and many of them are very rich, but others look down upon them as having admitted their women to too great familiarity with their chiefs." In the United Provinces they also claim to be Rajputs, as they returned themselves as a clan of Rajputs in 1881.

[421] Their position as described by Buchanan is precisely the same as that of the Dauwa Ahirs, who are the household servants of Bundela Rajputs in Bundelkhand, and the facts set forth above leave little or no doubt that the Bargahs are a mixed caste, arising from the connection of Rajputs with the Ahir women who were their personal servants.

In the Central Provinces no subdivisions of the caste exist at present, but a separate and inferior subcaste is in process of formation from those who have been turned out of caste.