More information about Burud People from Burud caste have traditional occupation of preparing articles from Bamboo. Burud is name specific to particular states like Maharashtra. Burud is derived from a Sanskrit word Buruda. Buruda in Sanskrit means a basket-maker, mat-maker. In Karnataka people with similar occupation are called Medar, while in Madhaya Pradesh they are called as Basor. Similarly they are spread in different parts of India. Their social status varies from state to state. In general people from these castes don't inter-marry, however there have been few exceptions and trend is changing slowly. For more information read...

1. Tribes and Castes of the central Provinces of India , Vol 2 By R.V Russell, pg 208 to 212
2. Tribes and Castes of the central Provinces of India By R.V Russell pg 208 to 212
3. The Tribes and Castes of Bombay By Reginald Edward Enthoven pg 254 to 257
4. The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H the Nizam's Dominions By Syed Siraj ul Hassan pg 135 to pg 136
5. The practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary By "Waman Shivaram Apte" pg 1121

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What is BurudOnline Yahoo Group?

1. BurudOnline Yahoo Group has been started with the intention of providing a mechanism for easy communication of thoughts amongst educated Buruds.
2. Membership to this group is restricted to Buruds.
3. If you wish to become a member please send a request mail to BurudOnline-subscribe@yahoogroups.com The email should contain your introduction relevant to Burud community. You can also mention the name of existing member who knows you personally.Upon verification your membership request will be accepted and your email id will get registered with the group.
4. You should as far as possible avoid using your organisation ids for registering with the group. Use ids provided by other email service provides like yahoo, gmail, rediff, hotmail, etc. Yahoo id is better, because with non-yahoo email ids there may be problems while accessing BurudOnline yahoo group pages.
5. On logging into group page using email id registered with the group, Some additional facilities like file sharing, message archives, member database are available.
6. You can discontinue your membership by sending an email to BurudOnline-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com using your email id registered with the group.

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How do I communicate with BurudOnline Yahoo Group?

1. Only the email IDs registered with the group can send messages to the group.
2. This can be done by sending email to BurudOnline@yahoogroups.com from the email ID registered with the group.
3. You will receive emails sent to the group at the email ID registered with the group.
4. Emails should be directed towards upliftment of Burud community.
5. Emails should have information relevant to Burud community, education opportunities, career options, special facilities available to our community, etc.
6. Emails which can lead to communal disharmony are strictly prohibited.
7. Emails should not be used to spread rumors or spam.
8. Emails with vulgarity of any sort are strictly prohibited.
9. Emails which are likely to violate any cyber laws are strictly prohibited.
10. Use a polite tone. Do NOT get personal.
11. Avoid using short forms such as "ur" for "your". Use clear and understandable English. Acronyms such as BTW, IMHO, can be used, but sparingly.
12. Use Plain TEXT for messages. A simple plain text message is easy and safe to read. Downloading attachments for reading purpose needs good AntiVirus software.
13. When informing about an article on the web, send the URL to the article rather than pasting the article in the message.
14. Attachments are not allowed and will not reach members. One can use file sharing facility available on the group page in such cases. In worst case please upload your file to any of the free homepage sites and send the URL to the group.
15. Any "amusing/descent/general knowledge" TEXT messages just to keep the group live are allowed. But please be "choosy" while sending emails to a group of people majority of whom you may have not met personally and are unaware of their personality. There are people with different tastes and age groups. Some forwards may create a different impression about you. For caste based group like ours relevant articles are the best, and other forwards are OK if they are "quality" and really useful. Your own indigenous thoughts are more important than forwards. The quantity of emails is not important.
16. The group email id: BurudOnline@yahoogroups.com should not be used to subscribe to any other groups, without prior concent of all members.

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What is the effect of indiscipline?

If you do not follow the above published guidelines while communicating with the group...

1. You are asked to explain your action.
2. You are warned if found guilty.
3. You are not allowed to post on the group, though you may continue to receive messages.
4. You are removed from the group.

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Who is Webburud?

1. Myself Webburud is Administrator of this website and the owner of BurudOnline group.
2. I wish to contribute to social upliftment of Burud Community. I started the this group in Dec 2003.
3. I use pseudonym because "it puts focus on what is being said rather than who is saying". This is critical if this mission is to move forward. Our own subtle prejudices and biases (based on the age, perceived gender, social position, etc. of the person writing, and/or our real-life interactions with them) can certainly affect the way we read and interpret people's words, affecting our ability to really understand what they're trying to say and consider it fairly. I don't wish that this mission stops because of personal differences. So, I will try to refrain from revealing my identity.

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What is the role of Moderators?

1. They are the champions for implementing the group initiatives.
2. In general they ensure that group discipline is followed.
3. They spread the group amongst all Buruds and increase our reach to lowest level. So they have rights to add new members to the group.
4. They have rights to block spam messages.

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Disclaimer

1. Webburud, the owner of this group is not responsible in anyway for postings made by the members.
2. The views expressed by the members are their own.
3. Webburud takes no responsibility of any sort of loss that can occur while browsing this website or linked websites.

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