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Panjis, panjis are maintained by Panjikars who are professional genealogists. They systematically maintain pedigree tales in the community of Naithal Brahmins. They go from place to place and periodically ascertain the genealogies of their clients and enter them in Panjis (palm leaf manuscripts of genealogy) and add to them such fresh additions as occur in the family from time to time. They are considered important in this community because questions of marriage (who may marry whom) and relationship and caste turn on them. Statements about pedigree are not therefore lightly made in such cases, Sitaji v. Bijendra Narain Chaudhary, AIR 1954 SC 601 (603). (Evidence Act, 1872, ss. 32, 33)