s. m. (M.), ) Corrupted from the Arabic word Bai, sale, and Khar, the root of the Persian word Kharidan, (to buy.) A broker. Used specially of a person who buys a crop of unripe dates, watches it while ripening, picks the fruit, and sells it by retail. Under the government of Diwan Sawan Mall the Baikhars were an important body. The government took the whole of the date-crop, no right of the owners of the land to the fruit being admitted. Each year in Háṛh (June-July) the date-crop was valued and sold at a fixed price to the Baikhars, who were usually the persons who had bought the fruit of the same trees in former years. From the time of sale they had to bear all expenses of watching, picking, drying and selling by retail. The price fixed was rigorously exacted. Rain or a fall in the price of dates of course caused them much loss, but no remissions were allowed on this or any other account. The British government has, however, admitted the right of the owners of the soil to the date trees, upon which a cash assessment has been made. Baikhars are now those who buy the unripe crop from the land owners, and watch, harvest and sell the fruit. The trade is very profitable. They absorb most of the profits that have arisen from the grant by Government of proprietary rights:—baikharáṇ de ajab chále; hik máṇh khaṭde, kháṇde sárá sále. The ways of baikhars are wonderful; they work for one month, and live a whole year on the profits!