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 338 LUC Thus Thákurs, Brahmans, Aliírs, Lodha, Pásis, Chamárs, Kurmis, and Kách his form the chief part of the cultivators. From these working classes also it is that the troop of day labourers and coolies is chiefly recruited, excluding the first three and such as are obviously artizan and trading. Mr. Williams, in table No. V. of his Cen- sus Report, puts down the labourers of this district at 25,000. In com- paring the non-agriculturists with persons engaged in professions in the table V. quoted, it is noticeable that the Thatheras (braziers), Bhurjis (grain-parchers), and the high class agriculturists, Kachhis and Kurmis, afford great numbers of labourers. The Lunias, of which there are some 1,200, are, wlien not agriculturists, everywhere the labouring class, and probably come under that head. The statement does not show any caste or profession that cannot be included in one of the several professions contained in the table quoted; but boatmen seen to be lost somewhere. They are entered as 15 only, while there are in the district 2,226, of whom 505 are agriculturists, and 440 non-agriculturists. With the river Gumti flowing through the district it is not to be supposed that these boatmen do not pursue their calling; and, moreover, the number of boats in the district amounts to 49. The part of the table that shows the professions most nearly connected with agriculture, and is most interesting as a portion of rural statistics, gives the following order :- Professions. 1.-Chaukidats (goraits) II.-Barbers (nás) 111.-Washermen (dhobis) VI.-Money-lenders (mahájens) VIII.-Zamindara Cultivators 1,33,976 IX.-Engaged about animals. A bírs (herdepen) Gararias (ahepherds) Pásis (pig-keepere) X-&rtizans-- Barhais (carpenters) 2,536 XI.- Engaged in textile fabrice- Julában and Koris (weavera) 3,851 Dhuniyas (cotton cleaners) 1,667 XII.-The village dcalcre- Milk sellers 2,669 Badiáns, Baqgála (shopkeepers) 3,838 Tambolis (pán-leaf sellers) Halwáis (confectioners) Bhurjis (grain-percbers) 1,995 Telis (oil-makers) 2,387 Kasgers (pottere) 1,994 Lohárs (blackemiths) Mapibars (bracelet makers) 2,126 979 It is to these classes principally that the non-agriculturists in every village belong, where they are not Brabmans, or Gosháíns, or faqirs, or decayed Musalman gentry living on their capital without any specified means of employment. The chaukidars are 3,119. They are universally of the Pási caste, and by the village municipal system were entrusted with the protection of the CIAgg 11 1. 3,119 2,752 1,948 797 1,662 97 ) 32 POP 33 1,930 1,899 2,21)2 .. 33 . 33 1. 93 2 984 914 P. 000 . 80