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 LUC 341 The Telis are employed in their legitimate vocation of expressing the oil from oilseeds and as carriers of grain, for which they keep buffaloes. Their gains in the former occupation are great. They usually get the weight in oilseeds of the oil expressed, and the husks of the old seed for kchali or oilcake, from which the sáni already mentioned is made. The payment is called perauni. The zamindars or landholders are said to number only 1,662, but if all the members of the land holding families be included that have been recorded as possessing a share in the estate either in joint or several tenure, they will amount to 14,756. The mass of landholders are Rajputs and Musalmans. Of the 1,416 villages in the district, 546 are held by the former, 555 by the latter. The Brahmans hold 132. The character of the Rajput is the most admirable of the three. He is manly and frank, proud of his birth and lineage, and of his old profession of aighting. His face is generally handsome and his physique good. He will eat meat when he can get it, and sometimes it is a boast of such a one that he never eats without meat (bina qalia). His dress is a dhoti and mirzái, or light thin jacket, and a light cap and gold earrings will complete his costume. Thus clad, and armed with a bamboo staff, which has been rubbed to a polish, he will talk to you and beat up game for you for hours. Condition of the agricultural classes. The condition of the agricul- tural classes varies. The Kurmi is industrious, cleanly, and intelligent, more independent and better off than his fellow workmen. But the Lodh, Ahír, and Pási seem often ill-fed and very slenderly clad. They seldom eat meat, or, indeed, the finer sorts of grain. Their food is the millets and pulses. Their hopes rest in the finer crops of the rabi for their rents. Tenures.—Lucknow is a district mainly the property of small land- owners; out of 1,498 villages in the old district 374 belonged to taluqdars, 37 in number. The other villages are either bhayyachára or zamindari. In the former a community of small proprietors hold a village with its demesne in coparcenary tenure, each shareholder enjoying a portion of the land. and also receiving a share of the rents paid by non-proprietary cultivators. It is a complex tenure. In zamindari villages there is no such mixture of rights. Several men are joint proprietors of the village, but they divide the rents only; no one has any permanent or other than permissive interest in any portion of the land. The two following tables are of great value; they refer to the old district of Lucknow:-