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Scan 40
Gazetteer Of Ulwar 1878, 1878
20 lines. Read by computer on 1 October 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1(respectable Rajpút Musalmans), Lodhas (?), Palledúrs (porters), Bhánds (Musalman actors), Chárans (Hindoo poets), Khajasarai and Hijra (kinds of eunuchs), Gadarias (Hindoo blanket makers), Ghosi (milk sellers), Kamnigars (painters, formerly bow makers), Bázigars (jugglers), Khatrí's (Hindoo traders), Patuas (Hindoo workers in silk), Thateras (brass-workers), Niyária (collectors of silver filings), Badhiks (bird catchers), Sisgars (glass workers). The above are mentioned in order of numerical importance. The last few are each under twenty.
3I have not attempted to distinguish between a mere profession and a caste proper, which eats and marries with none outside of it, but for the most part the list is one of distinct castes.
5CONDITION AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE.
7There are no extremely wealthy people in the state and only a few rich. These last are found not in the city of Ulwur, but in Rajgarh and Bás of Kishengarh.
9Some trouble was taken to ascertain the material condition of the agricultural population, and to estimate the proportions of the comfortable class, the intermediate, and the very poor.
11For one of the first-class it was calculated that there would be four of the second and from fifteen to twenty-five of the third. The first-class live well, consuming plenty of milk, butter-milk porridge (rábrí), ghee, sugar, and good flour. The second-class obtains butter-milk porridge (rábrí), but little if any milk or ghee, and no sugar, and only the coarser kind of grain. The third class consumes water porridge and coarse grain; everything else goes to pay the debts due to the baniya. All classes get more or less tobacco; about 50 per cent. do not possess more than one head of cattle.
13A good deal, however, is spent by the poorer classes on marriages; and though boys often remain long unmarried owing to poverty, few grow old single, for Meos allow concubinage without bastardising the issue of it, and the lower castes of Hindús can make darícha marriages—that is, marry the widows of their brethren. Many make money by the marriage of their daughters. Even Baniyas now often do this.
15In dress I can discover no striking peculiarity. The common dopatta is worn by men with the angarkha, or in the absence of both, the dohar. The women wear angis, paejámas (drawers) or ghágras (petticoats), and dopattas. Khánzáda women wear the tilak, a kind of tunic worn also by low castes.
17A European official on coming to Rájputana will observe that his reception at the villages he visits is different from what he usually meets with in British territory. As he approaches, women collect, one places a brass vessel on her head, and the party be-
19* Kánchalí, sína bandh, cholí (all the same).
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