It seems not improbable that the Binds may be a true aboriginal tribe, and the Nunias a functional group differentiated by taking to the manufacture of earth-salt.
There is a popular belief among the people of Bind community t hat in the ancient past a Kshatriya king called Kartavirya Arjuna or Sahasrabahu Arjun of Haihay dynasty ruled the earth.
According to the traditional myth, some Kshatriyas took shelter of a den in the Vindhya(also pronounced as Bindya) hill to avoid their elimination.
After the first negotiations have passed between the parents of the bride and bridegroom, the headman (manjan) and the caste council (panchayat) are consulted on the important question of prohibited degrees.
This being settled, the next step is ghardekhai, an exchange of visits, at which the bridegroom's people see the bride, and vice versa.
In the course of the ghardekhai a date is fixed for tilak when the bride's relatives come to the bridegroom's house and present to him a rupee, a new cloth, some cooking utensils, some betel leaves and areca-nut, and fix in the presence of the headman and some representatives of the caste council an auspicious date for the celebration of the marriage.
[6] The Bind are among 17 Other Backwards Class communities that have been proposed for Scheduled Caste status by the Samajwadi Party-controlled Government of Uttar Pradesh.
However, this proposal, which relates to votebank politics and has been made in the past, has been stayed by the courts; a prior attempt was also rejected by the centre.
They are concentrated in eastern Uttar Pradesh, and speak Bhojpuri and Maithili..[9] In Bihar, the Jethaut are mainly engaged in fishing, well sinking and basket making, while the Kharaut are mainly farmers.