1 JAT, RAJPUT, AND ALLIED CASTES. 103
2 the caste tables which he appends to his reports, in which he classes the Hindu
3 jDopiilation under the heads of first grade Brahman ; second grade Brahman ;
4 first grade Rajput ; second grade Rajput ; Khatris, ]\Iahajans, Kirars, &c. ;
5 first grade Sudras, Thakars, Rathis, &c. ; second grade Siidras ; he «Tites : —
6 " The Rajput clans of tlie second grade might move properly be called first grade Thakars :
7 "among the most distinguished and numerous of them are the Habrols, the Pathials, the Dhatwals,
8 " the Indaurias, the Nangles, the Gumbaris, the Ranes, the Eanials, the Ranats, the Mailes.
9 " They marry their dauglitcrs to the Miaiis, and take daughters in marriage from the Rathis. In
10 " the statements most of the Thakars have been entered as second class Rajputs, and a few as
11 " first class Siiib'as. Most of the Thakar> entered in this last class might more properly have been
12 " classed as Rathis. The Nurpur Thakars are all no better than Rathig. A Thakar, if a«ked in
13 " what way he is better than a Riithi, will say that his own manners and social customs,
14 " particularly in respect of selling daughters, marrying brother's widow, &c , are more like
15 "those of the Jli'an class than those of the Rathis are. The best line of distinction however
16 " is the marriage connection ; the Mian will marry a Tliakar's daughter, but not a Rathi's.
17 " The Rathi's daughter marries a Thakar, and her daughter can then marry a Mian. No
18 " one calls himself a Rathi, or likes to be addressed as one. The term is understood to convey
19 "some degi'ee of slight or insult ; the distinction between Thakar and Rathi is however very loose.
20 " A rich man of a Rathi family, like Shib Dial Chaudhri of Chetru, marries his daughter to an
21 " impoverished Raja, and his whole clan gets a kind of step and becomes Thakar Rajput. So
22 " again a Raja out riding falls in love with a Pathial girl herding cattle, and marries her
23 " whereupon the whole clan begins to give its daughters to Mi'aus. The whole thing reminds one
24 " of the struggles of families to rise in society in England, except that the numbers Interested
25 "in the struggle arc greater here, as a man cannot separate himself entirely from his clan, and
26 " must take it up with him or stay where he is, and except that the tactics or rules of the game
27 " are here stricter and more formal, and the movement much slower."
28 P. 101. And the quotation fi-om the same report given on page 221* may be refen-ed to.
29 The Rathi does not seem to be a favourite in Kangra. Here ai'e two proverbs
30 about him : •' The Rathi in the stocks, the barley in the mill ;" and " A
31 " Riithi, a goat, a devotee, and a widow woman ; all need to be kept weak, for
32 " if strong they will do mischief.'''
33 Of the Thakars of Kangra 2,273 have shown their tribe as Phul, and
34 4,304 as Jarautia. In Gui-daspur l,tJ07 are shown as Panglana and 294 as
35 Balotra. Some 6,000 altogether show Kasib as their clan, which is firobably
36 only their Brahminical gotra. Among the Rathis of Kangra there are 1,078
37 Balotra, 1,716 Barhai, 3,029 Changra, 1,879 Dharwal, 1,632 Gurdwal, 1,113
38 Goital, 1,101 Mangwal, 518 Phawiil, and 1,774 Rakor. In Chamba there are
39 2,350 Choj)hal. Altogether 15,000 show themselves as Kasib. There is a
40 local saying tliat there are as many clans of Rathis as there are different kinds
41 of grass.
42 459a. The Dhund and Kahut (Caste Nos. 74 and 103).— These have been
43 already discussed together with the Ritjpuls of the Western Hills in sec-
44 tions 453, 454.
45 w2