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2 PANJAB CASTES,
3 women of the northeru or UttaraJlii section wear red ivorv liracelets and the
4 section is divided into two sub-sections called Bilhri and Buujahi (see Khatri
5 divisions, section 54<()) . The women of the sontheru or Dakhana section wear
6 white ivoiy Ijracelets, and the section is divided into two sub-sections, the
7 Dahra and the Dakhanadhain ; but the Dahra sub-section is so important that
8 it is often counted as a third section, and the term Dakhana applied to the
9 Dakhanadhains alone. So it is said that in some j^laces the Dahra women
10 alone wear white, and the Dakhana women spotted bracelets of Ijolli colom-s.
11 The Bahri and the Dakhanadhain claim social superiority, and will take wives
12 from, but not give daughters to, the other sub-section of their respective
13 sections. The figures are given in Abstract No. 93 on the next page.* It will *Below.
14 be noticed that the Dakhanas are far strongest in the southern and south-
15 western districts.
16 Abstract No. 93, showing the Divisions of the Aroras.
17 [P. 298]
18 SiTsa
19 Amriisar
20 Sialkot
21 Lahore
22 GQJrSnwMa...
23 Firozpar ...
24 Rawalpindi..,
25 Jahlam
26 Qi!ijrat ...
27 SUahpur
28 MoltSn
29 Jhang
30 Moutgomerj
31 Abobab,
32 1
33 2
34 3
35 1
36 C3
37 P
38 es
39 2
40 .a
41 1,522
42 3,876
43 120
44 5,716
45 7,60-1
46 142
47 8
48 5,787
49 12,141
50 21,872
51 5,079
52 4,422
53 6
54 3,432
55 4,982
56 6,753
57 46
58 2,966
59 6.335
60 9,t93
61 20,193
62 72
63 15
64 63
65 5,348
66 4,896
67 B,608
68 11,771
69 9,482
70 8,793
71 18,004
72 3,108
73 34,383
74 2,185
75 13,101
76 6,455
77 23,541
78 16,283
79 MnzaSaigarh
80 D. I. KhSn
81 D. G. Khdn
82 Banna
83 Peshawar
84 Hazara
85 Kohit
86 BahSwalpur
87 British Territory
88 Native States ...
89 Province
90 Abobas,
91 1
92 2
93 3
94 3
95 P
96 ei
97 .P
98 Q
99 909
100 20,166
101 10,434
102 10,611
103 11,275
104 3,16B
105 22,.587
106 10,580
107 4,152
108 1,787
109 3,763
110 33
111 12
112 212
113 4,307
114 44,975
115 166,036
116 6,397
117 172,433
118 123.940
119 45,507
120 169.447
121 3
122 1,016
123 57
124 2,818
125 297
126 27
127 6,702
128 102,241
129 6,707
130 108,943
131 545. The Khojah and Paracha (Castes Nos. 44 and 104) .—The word
132 Khojah is really nothing more than our old friend the Khwajah of the Arabian
133 Nights, and means simply a man of wealth and respectability. In the Panjab
134 it is U5ed in three different senses : for a eunuch, for a scavenger converted to
135 Islam, and for a Mahomedan trader.^ It is in the last sense that it is used in
136 our tables. There does not appear to be any true caste of Khojahs, any
137 Hindu trader converted to Mabomedanism being known by that name, ' Thus
138 the Khojahs of Shahpur are almost entirely Khatris, and a Khatri now becom-
139 ing a Musaluiau in that district would l)e called a Khojah. The Khojahs of
140 Jhang, on the other hand, are said to be converted Aroras ; while some at least
141 of the Lahore Khojahs claim Bhiitia origin, and one section of the AmbaJa
142 The Kbojahs of Bombay are well known for theii- wealth and commercial enterprise.