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 LUC 337 PO et .be 410 2:53 1.6 1.79 158 1 79 1.. 11.24 OP Banián Tamboli Darzi Bhurji Teli Chamár Kabár Sáchhi Barhai Kurni Thathera Gumel to . 2.80 4:59 1.68 6.43 1 90 1.86 2. Total 14. 94.68 There are in all 71 Hindu castes, leaving 47 to make up the remaining 5:32 per cent. Thus the predominating Hindu castes are Thákur, Brahman, Ahir, Pási, Lodh, Chamár, and the two valuable cultivating classes of Kachhis and Kurmis. This is very similar to some of the results noticed by Mr. Williams in his census report, but the list given above would show the Thákurs, Ahírs, Pásis, and Chamárs are iu more than average numbers in this district. In Lucknow they amount to 772, 11•12, 10:55, 11:24 respectively, but throughout the province they are 5-9, 10-4, 6:1, 11•5 per cent. of the whole population (paras. 282 to 307, 299, 319, Census Re- port). Opinions seem divided, or as yet unformed, as to whether these low castes—Ahírs, Pásis, and Chamárs--are aboriginal tribes or not, and till we know more of their customs and religious practices, it will, perhaps, bo impossible to say. From what I have observed I should say they were, and that Kurmis and Kách his are not. The Musalmans number 56 castes or trades, as they would be more properly called. It would be labour ill-spent to analyse the castes of the Musalman culti- vators, for they amount to but 25 per cent. of the whole population. But of the Hindus, who compose the bulk of the population, 24 castes, amounting to 94:68 per cent. of the whole, supply the majority of the ivators, leaving the remaining 5.32 per cent to be divided between 47 castes, the most numerous among which are the Lunias, Bháts, Mális, Báris, Gosháins, Darzis, Lohárs, Khattris, Bhangis, and Malláhs, all of which, except the Báris and Lohárs, are, nearly 5l per cent. of them, agriculturists, but the Darzis and Khattris are not more than one-third so engaged. The following 15 castes of those mentioned in the list given above will give the great bulk of cultivators. They are thus divided : 1 Tbákur 9 Baqqal 2 Brahman 3 Káyath 11 Kahár 4 Abir 12 Káchbi 6 Garuria 13 Kurai 14 Gumel 16 Barhai W. 10 Chamár 26 1041 1 65 13:46 9042 1.26 14.62 2:37 11'1 7.72 1.11 140 6.10 I 201 6 7 8 Pági Lodh Nia 9-49 1 68 1:13 P. Total 940 940