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 482 Rli W$ OP BOOKS portsnee in recent esntur/es---is thus explained. politieal greatness and material wealth have in its earlier ages, it is mueh to find the Ana housh been wsnt origin of our eity as a esntrs of the plain living and ldgh thinking of holy man of old.." "Beturning to the Isor of the Town we have still to find the seat of its temporal authority. This reinshe obvious in the rs. st mansions, of the of Indore since the of whioh the head Pslee, or rather rambling growth of old Brahmin family of Eso, Zsmindsrs Mohsmmsdsn age, and doubtless earlier, is to this day sometimes spoken of in his neighborhood as the 'E sis of Juni Indore '. The wealth and infiusnee of this family was not merely applied to domestie uses; for .to the enlightmned poliey of one or more of its head, we owe the suburb .,of Byasphfds on the west and also the Esoji Bsssr on the east, both established for new immigrations of Brahmins thus attracted to Juni Indore,. In this way &ross the present, and still oompset, Brahmin town, with its menials forming their Mohsllss st various sites around, as notably st and Kumswatpurs, (also probably to the West and probably SOLUS little way N.W. and N.E. also). "I is insrssing o nos he elssr-eu srsifiestion of es. sfas whieh the soeisl 8setion of sueh s town presents. Thus, starting from the eentrsl street of Shsnigali, and proeeoding eastward, we leave the old original Brhmins, we pan through the Esoji Bssar of old immigrant Brahmins, and thenee eoms to the Blast Mohslls, s group of birdie origins, elsiming o bs Brshmini of lser dss, bu of less fully reeognised eases-rank. A libels further sss again, ws have hs eulivsors in Mslit)urs, and sss of hsse again, he vegetable sellers of the almost rural Mursi Mohslls. "Only after all or mos of his area was ssseniy settled, do ws find indieatious of the eoming of the Mos. Isms. The positions, of their Mosques .in all three eases, (south-east, south-west and north) are outside the old town. As already mentioned, the original temples seem to have beeu destroyed, as old stones suggest, and as the domestic, uo monumental, srehitseturo of the present ones indicates; Iut otherwise the town has substantially' kept (or has re- eovsred? ) its old ehsrsetsr. The Mohammedan Rule was here of its more tolerant variety, even the stern Aurangseb