Haridwar panda bahis

हरिद्वार पंडा बही

Tirtha purohit seat, Tirtha purohits

Haridwar, Uttarakhand

Pandas at Haridwar keep hereditary bahis of their client families from across North India, including families from districts now in Pakistan. Each firm covers particular states, districts and villages. The Shri Ganga Sabha, founded in 1916, speaks for about 2,500 panda families.

How a family belongs

Each panda lineage holds hereditary rights over families from particular areas. A family's panda is found by its ancestral village, district and caste, not by gotra or surname.

What it records

Registers are arranged by village and then jati, in patrilineal order; married daughters are entered in the husband's family record. About a tenth is microfilmed (476 rolls) as FamilySearch's "India, Hindu Pilgrimage Records, 1194–2015": 1,518,440 images and 259,397 indexed persons. Release needs the panda's permission.

Note

Its records are a priest family's private property.

Sources

Confidence: high. Last checked November 2026. Heads, courts and websites change, so entries are checked again every year.

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