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During the British Raj era, many ridiculously defamatory, unfounded and false notions were propagated against Bhumihars regarding their origins and ethnogenesis. '''These theories have been refuted, thoroughly debunked and rejected''' by the colonial era Anthropologists, Ethnologists and Historians themselves. | During the British Raj era, many ridiculously defamatory, unfounded and false notions were propagated against Bhumihars regarding their origins and ethnogenesis. '''These theories have been refuted, thoroughly debunked and rejected''' by the colonial era Anthropologists, Ethnologists and Historians themselves. | ||
* '''Sir Alexander Cunningham, the founder and first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India''', had himself remarked that defamatory stories about the Bhumihars were '''actually spread by "their enemies"''', perhaps out of jealousy. | * '''Sir Alexander Cunningham, the founder and first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India''', had himself remarked that defamatory stories about the Bhumihars were '''actually spread by "their enemies"''', perhaps out of jealousy.<ref>[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Report_of_a_Tour_in_Bihar_and_Bengal_in/WaCeEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq= Report of a Tour in Bihar and Bengal in 1879-80. From Patna to Sunargaon] | ||
* Even '''D. L. Drake-Brockman, a British-era civil servant''' and author of several British government gazetteers, rejected the false origin stories about Bhumihars. He wrote that '''these rumours were generally propagated by the Brahmin and Rajput neighbours of Bhumihars''', and stated that he had found no evidence to supporting those fabricated stories made by the Brahmins and Rajputs. | |||
[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Report_of_a_Tour_in_Bihar_and_Bengal_in/WaCeEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq= Vol. 15] | |||
[https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Report_of_a_Tour_in_Bihar_and_Bengal_in/WaCeEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq= By Alexander Cunningham] p. 115</ref> | |||
* Even '''D. L. Drake-Brockman, a British-era civil servant''' and author of several British government gazetteers, rejected the false origin stories about Bhumihars. He wrote that '''these rumours were generally propagated by the Brahmin and Rajput neighbours of Bhumihars''', and stated that he had found no evidence to supporting those fabricated stories made by the Brahmins and Rajputs.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
== Written proof against "Bhumihars are a mixed race" == | == Written proof against "Bhumihars are a mixed race" == | ||
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Regarding the claim that Bhumihars were of mixed Rajput and Brahmin origin, D. L. Drake-Brockman, a British civil servant and author of district gazetteers, wrote in 1911 that he found no evidence to support the mixed origin theory. | Regarding the claim that Bhumihars were of mixed Rajput and Brahmin origin, D. L. Drake-Brockman, a British civil servant and author of district gazetteers, wrote in 1911 that he found no evidence to support the mixed origin theory. | ||
He also observed that the mixed origin allegation against Bhumihars was generally made by their Brahmin and Rajput neighbours, but Drockman stated that no evidence existed to prove the claims made by those Rajput and Brahmins.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281260 Azamgarh: A Gazetteer by D L Drake Brockman]</ref> | He also observed that the mixed origin allegation against Bhumihars was generally made by their Brahmin and Rajput neighbours, but Drockman stated that no evidence existed to prove the claims made by those Rajput and Brahmins.<ref name=":1">[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281260 Azamgarh: A Gazetteer by D L Drake Brockman]</ref> | ||
[[File:Origin(10) (1).jpg|center|thumb|566x566px|Book: ''Azamgarh: A Gazetteer'' ''by'' '''D. L. Drake Brockman''']] | [[File:Origin(10) (1).jpg|center|thumb|566x566px|Book: ''Azamgarh: A Gazetteer'' ''by'' '''D. L. Drake Brockman''']] | ||