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2 printed below has been prepared for the whole province. The index has little or no value
3 for administrative purposes, but such value as it may possess as an addition to our ethno-
4 graphical material, lies mainly in the fact that it presents the information it contains in a
5 form in which it can be readily used.
6 In preparing this index I have excluded all entries in which the caste in question, or
7 a synonym thereof, was not entered in the form of the two columns reserved in the sche-
8 dules for the return of information relating to caste. The index, therefore, may be looked
9 on as containing no entry that was not actually returned in the schedules at the census..
10 I have included, for instance, all sub-castes returned under the caste Dhobf, or under Gazar
11 which is a synonym for Dhobf, but I have ignored all entries in which the term Dhobf or
12 a synonym thereof appeared in the second only of the two columns of the schedule or did
13 not appear at all.
14 A number of the sub-castes returned are, on the face of them, pure nonsense, and if
15 careful examination were made, a good deal more nonsense still would be elicited. When I
16 consulted the Census Commissioner for India regarding the preparation of the index, he
17 advised me to" cut out the rubbish.” But I have refrained from doing this, because | can-
18 not tell (and I do not know any one who could tell) what is rubbish and what is not; and
19 if | am not to exclude all the rubbish, I would rather exclude none at all, The ethnologist
20 or other scientific enquirer who may at any time make use of this index, will be in a better
21 position to discriminate the useful from the useless in the information it contains. All I
22 have ventured to do is to omit the cases in which the caste name has been returned both
23 as a caste and a sub-caste : that is to say, the cases in.which no sub-caste was returned.
24 The castes for which I collected details are those which we recorded in tabulation, the
25 number and classification of which was subsequently somewhat altered. A number of
26 castes tabulated were found to belong properly to some other caste, but as a rule the
27 castes thus incorporated contained a very insignificant number of people. Where they
28 are large or important enough, I have added details for them also, as well as for the castes
29 which appear in our Caste Tables.
30 The transliteration has been conducted on a system prescribed by myself, the object of
31 which is merely to give a separate form of letter for each separate consonant in the Urdu
32 alphabet. The following are the exceptional letters with the transliteration adopted :-—
33 viz,:ems,d: 03, dh: @ gh: 3,q: ¢, kh: 5,45: 4), rh: &,$: bt: &, t: #, th: &, zg:
34 us, Z: 4,2: j, zh. It must always be remembered that many of the words are not properly
35 Urdu words, and that in any case they were liable to a considerable amount of mis-
36 spelling before they were entered in the list, The pronunciation of the same word too
37 often differs in different places, so that one and the same sub-caste not unfrequently appears
38 two or three times in the index.
39 The preparation of the index has been a work of very considerable labour, and the result
40 may not in some cases be perfectly accurate. They have been subjected to such check as
41 was considered sufficient to make sure of their general accuracy: and though J have not
42 thought it advisable to bestow on this index the very minute check which would have
43 been required if it had been of as much practical importance as the rest of our work,
44 shes it ral be accepted as inthe main showing the returns exactly as entered in the
45 schedule.
46 The letter immediately following the names of the sub-caste denotes the religion: —
47 H. Hindu. M. Musulman. B. Buddhist.
48 S. Sikh, | Ch. Christian. QO. Others.
49 J. Jain. P. Parsi.
50 The figures and letters following those which denote the religion, indicate the locality
51 in which the sub-caste is found. The following is the interpretation thereof :—
52 1. Hissar. 12. Ferozepore. 23. Jhelum.
53 2. Rohtak, 13. Multan. 24. Rawal Pindi.
54 3. Gurgaon. 14. Jhang. : 25. Hazara,
55 4. Delhi. 15. Montgomery. 26. Peshawar,
56 5. Karnal. 16. Lahore, 27. Kohat.
57 6. Ambala. 17. Amritsar. ; 28. Bannu.
58 q. Simla. 18. Gurdaspur. : 29. Dera Ismail Khan.
59 8. Kangra. 19. Sialkot. 30. Dera Ghazi Khan.
60 g. Hoshiarpur. 20. Gujrat. 31. Muzaffargarh.
61 10. Jalandhar. 21. Gujranwala. 32. Transfrontier Biloches.
62 11. Ludhiana. 22. Shakpur.
63 P. Patiala. M. Mandi. Kal. Kalsia.
64 B. Bahawalpur. MK. Malerkotla. Pt. Pataudi.
65 J. Jing F. Faridkot. L. Loharu,
66 N. Nabha. Ch. Chamba. D. Dujana,
67 K. Kapurthala. S. Suket. H. Simla Hill States.
68 This index has been prepared from the district caste lists described in my remarks
69 on tabulation in Volume I. Each abstraction office prepared an index on the lines laid
70 down, and from these and from the Native States’ lists a provincial index was prepared
71 in my office. The index was prepared in vernacular on a lithographed bilingual form, and
72 the vernacular entries were then transliterated on the English half of the form, so that
73 we had the vernacular and English entries immediately opposite each other. The index
74 thus prepared were then cut into slips and re-arranged according ta the English alphabeti-
75 cal order.