Report on the Census of British India, Taken on the 17th February 1881, Volume 3Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1883 - Bangladesh |
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Aboriginal age periods agricultural Ajmere Ajmere Bengal Berar amongst average Balija Banya Baroda Berar Bombay Bombay City Bōya Bráhmans Burmah castes Census cent Central India Central Provinces Chetti clerk considerable Coorg cultivators custom dealer Deccan Delhi districts figures girls Golla Gouda Government Group Head Gújar Gujarát Hindoo Hindooism Hissár husbands Idayan illiterate infanticide instruction Jains Jangam Jathi Kallan Kánara Kapu Karnátic keeper Khandesh Konkan Kshatria Kulam Kuraba labourer latter less Lohár Madras Mahammedans maker Māla males manufacturer Marátha Maravan marriage married merchant Multán Musalmán Mysore North-west Provinces occupation Paraja Parayan Pársis Per-centage population Presidency Division priest probably proportion of females Punjab pupils Railway Rajput ratio Reddi religion returned Sakkili seller servant Setti sexes shrine Sikh square miles Sub-Order subdivisions Sudra Surat Total towns Travancore tribes Vandlu Vannán Vellalan village Wánia whilst widows wives women worker worship
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Page cxxii - ... not be said nay by any man. I do not mean, however, that he is turbulent ; as a rule he is very far from being so. He is independent and he is self-willed ; but he is reasonable, peaceably inclined if left alone, and not difficult to manage. He is usually content to cultivate his fields and pay his revenue in peace and quietness if people will let him do so ; though when he does go wrong he takes to anything from gambling to murder, with perhaps a preference for stealing other people's wives...
Page cxxii - Jat calls himself zamindar or " husbandman " as often as Jat, and his women and children alike work with him in the fields : " The Jat's baby has a plough handle for a plaything.
Page cxxxv - Ghirths have no easy time of it, and their energies and powers of endurance must be most elastic to bear up against this incessant toil. To look at their frames, they appear incapable of sustaining such fatigue. The men are short in stature, frequently disfigured by goitre (which equally affects both sexes), dark and sickly in complexion, and with little or no hair on their faces. Both men and women have coarse features, more resembling the Tartar physiognomy than any other type, and it is rare to...
Page cxxi - ... fortune has raised to political importance have become Rajputs almost by mere virtue of their rise : and that their descendants have retained the title and its privileges on the condition, strictly enforced, of observing the rules by which the higher are distinguished from the lower castes in the Hindu scale of precedence; of preserving their purity of blood by refusing to marry with families of inferior social rank, of rigidly abstaining from widow marriage, and of refraining from degrading...
Page xii - ... over the patient's body, by preference on Saturday or Sunday ; he then counts out the grains one by one into heaps, one heap for each god who is likely to be at the bottom of the mischief, and the deity on whose heap the last grain falls is the one to be propitiated.
Page xi - BO he asked the river to step back seven paces and let him dry. In her hurry to oblige the saint, she retreated seven miles, and there she is now. He gave the people of Panipat a charm which drove away all flies from, the city. But they grumbled and said they rather liked flies, so he brought them back a thousandfold. The people have since repented. There was a good deal of trouble about his funeral. He died near Karnal, and there they buried him. But the Panipat people claimed his body, and came...
Page cxxi - Till lately the limits of caste do not seem to have been so immutably fixed in the hills as in the plains. The Kaja was the fountain of honour, and could do much as he liked. I have heard old men quote instances within their memory in which a Raja promoted a Girth to be a Rathi, and a Thakur to be a Rajput...
Page cxxvii - During the hot weather the Gujars usually drive their herds to the upper range, where the buffaloes rejoice in the rich grass which the rains bring forth, and at the same time attain condition from the temperate climate and the immunity from venomous flies which torment their existence in the plains. The Gujars are a fine, manly race, with peculiar and handsome features.
Page cxxiii - Pathán whom they had been accustomed to look upon as their equals, under the generic name of Jat, until the people themselves have lost the very memory of their origin. It is possible that our own officers may have emphasized the confusion by adopting too readily the simple classification of the population as the Biloch or peculiar people on the one hand and the Jat or Gentile on the other, and that the * Among the organised Biloch tribes of the frontier, however, Biloch girls are not given to Jats.
Page xviii - Their clothing is the same as that of other Bagris, except that their women do not allow the waist to be seen, and are fond of wearing black woollen clothing. They are more particular about ceremonial purity than ordinary Hindus are, and it is a common saying that if a Bishnoi's food is on the first of a string of twenty camels and a man of another caste touches the last camel of the string, the Bishnoi would consider his food defiled and throw it away.