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 LODHAS (352)

HOUGH the Lodhas do not rank with the highest class of cultivators, they are yet a useful and industrious class, principally inhabiting Bhurtpoor, and other native states in Rajpootana and the North-West Provinces. In religion and customs there is little or no difference between them and the same classes of Jats, Goojurs, Koormees, and other agricultural classes. The figure on the right is leaning upon the yoke of his bullocks, and the rope is intended for raising water, as appears from the pulley over which it runs, and here has broken the coil. Lodhas are in general fine able men, hardy, and active; but they have not the best of characters, being often turbulent and thievish; some of them enlist as sepoys, and make good soldiers.