Gazetteer Amritsar 1892

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1| Punjab Gazetteer,

244 (CHAP, IL.—THB PROFLE.

3‘Ohapter 111, B. including ns they do tho aucts of Native Christinns. To quote

4<p from the report:—“Ib is a notoriously difficult thing to

5Piers ‘aacortain the soot to which some Nitive Christinos belong, na

6=I “they often do not know thempelves, or if they do, can only

7—- give ite name in some unrecognizable form.” Tn itting

8the Cenaue Report for the distrieh in 1881, the Depaty Com-

9missioner wrote that the number of Wahdbia returned for

10the district at that cenwns (541 souls) was far below the real

11mark, as they were notorionsly numerous, and incrensingly so in

12Amritear city, where ho extimated them to be then six or seven

13thousand strong, and added that they claimod to be even mora

14numerous. At the present census those returned as Ahlé-hadia,

15asthe Wahabis prefer to style themaelyoz, was B86, which ix

16only a amall advance to what is believed to be the real

17Table No. IX shows the religion of the major castes and

18tribos of the district, and therefore the distribution by caste of

19the grent majority of the followers of each religion. in shows

20that out of every hundred Jats 7 roturnod themselves ay Hindis,

2172ae Sikhs, and 21 ae Mukammadans, The latter art most

22numerous in the riverain tracks of Ajudla, Among Uhuhras,

23numerically the next most important tribo in the district, there

24is not the tendency observed m some other parts af the province

25to describe themselves as practising the Muhamumidan religion.

26Practically the Chuhrés tend to adopt the religion of the owners

27of the village in which thoy aro settlod (at least so far as ontward

28observances sre concerned). So it is not sarprising to find that

29$2 per cent. returned themmelyes as Hindis, A description of

30the preat religions of the Punjab and of their principal ‘sects

31will be found in Chaptor 1V of the Consus Report. The religious

32practice and belief of the district prosent no special pecaliarities

33nod it would be out of pluce to enter here into any disquisition

34on the general question, Tha

35general ditribation of religions by

36tahsils can be gathersd from tlie

37figures of Table No. VII. Tlie

38figares given in the margin will

39help to show in « conventions

40form how the Hindds (owing to

41— tho presence of the oy) rf

42- = dominaty rolatively in tha Am--

43ritear talisil, the Sikhs in Tarn Taran sud the Mubammadaus

44is Ajnain. a

45- Language Tho prevailing language, or rather dialect, is Panjébi. Tho —

46dialect varies from distriee to district, aud it is ble, after

47some soqjuaintance with the accent of the Amritsar Jat, to tell

48that a man comes from tha Heolinn Dodb xoross the Révi, or

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