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The Rajputana Gazetteer Vol. 3 (1880) Includes Gazeteer Of Meywar, Partabgarh, Sirohi And Mount Abu, Ulwur, 1880
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1(respectable Rajput Musalmans), Lodhas (?), Palidárs (porters), Bhánds (Musalman actors), Chárans (Hindu poets), Khajasaraís and Hijras (eunuchs), Gadarias (Hindu blanket-makers), Ghosis (milk-scallers), Kamnigars (painters, formerly bow-makers), Bázigars (jugglers), Khatris (Hindu traders), Patuas (Hindu workers in silk), Tháteras (brass-workers), Niyarias (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 20.
3No attempt has been made 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.—There are no very wealthy people in the State, and only a few rich. These last are found not in the city of Ulwur, but in Rájgarh and Bás of Kishengarh.
7Some 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. For 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 lives well, consuming plenty of milk, buttermilk porridge (rábri), ghee, sugar, and good flour. The second class obtains buttermilk porridge, 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 banya. All classes get more or less tobacco. About 50 per cent. do not possess more than one head of cattle. A 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 Mcos allow concubinage without bastardising the issue of it, and the lower castes of Hindus can make daricha marriages—that is, marry the widows of their brethren. Many make money by the marriage of their daughters. Even banyas now often do this.
9In dress there is no striking peculiarity. The common dupatta is worn by men with the angarkha, or, in the absence of both, the dohar. The women wear angis,* paijamas (drawers) or ghágras (petticoats), and dupattas. Khanzáda women wear the tilak, a kind of tunic worn also by low castes.
11The reception of European visitors at villages in Rajputana is different from that accorded in British territory. As the visitor approaches, women assemble, one places a brass vessel on her head,
13* Kanchali, sina bandh, choli (equivalent terms).
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