1 JULAHA PlVISIONS.
2 1.
3 Eha«l
4 50,.55S
5 2
6 Kholchav ...
7 33,672
8 O
9 Jaiijua
10 22,150
11 4'.
12 Sin 11m
13 18,724
14 5
15 Kabirbansi ...
16 11,222
17 6.
18 Awan
19 8,832
20 7.
21 Jarjal
22 5,984
23 VAGRANT, MENIAL, AND ARTISAN CASTES. 303
24 He is perhaps the most troublesome of the artisan classes. Like tbc shoe-
25 malcer of Europe, he follows a wholly sedentary occupation, and in the towns
26 at least is one of the most turhiilent classes of the community. There is a
27 proverbial saying : '' How should a weaver be patient ? " Indeed the contrast
28 between the low social standing and the obtrusive pretentiousness of the class
29 is often used to point a proverb : " A weaver by trade, and his name is Fatah
30 " Khan (' victorious chief.') " " Lord preserve us ! The weaver is going out
31 " hunting ! " " Himself a weaver, and he has a Saiyad for hi= servant ! '
32 " What ! Pathans the bond servants of weavers ! " and so forth.
33 613. Divisions of JulallaS.— The .Julalia Bub-divisions are exceedingly numerous, but the
34 uaraes of most of the larger ones are taken from
35 dominant land-owning tribes, I note some of the larg-
36 est in the margin. The Bhattis are very widely
37 distributed ; the Khokliars are ebiifly found west of
38 Lahore : the Janjuas and Awitns in the Rawalpindi
39 division, tho Sindhus in the Amritsar and L.ahore
40 divisous, and the Jaryrils in Kaugra. The Kabirbausi
41 arc returned for Ambala and Kaiigra, and app.ai'ently
42 this word lias become a true tribal name and now in-
43 cludes Musalman Julahas. It is derived from the
44 great Dhagat Kabir of Benares who was himself »
45 J ultiha, and whose teaching most of tho Hindu Jula-
46 has profess to follow. The eastern JuUilms are said
47 to be divided hi two great sections, Ueswiili, or those of the country, and Tel, the latter being
48 supposed to be descended from a .Inlaha who married a Teli woman. The latter are socially inferior
49 to the former. In the Jamna districts there are aUo a Gangapuri (? Gaugapari) and a Multani
50 section, the former being found only in the .lamiia \aney and the latter on the liorders of the
51 iliilwa. The weaver appears to be called Golah in Peshawar and KAsbi in Ha/.ara.
52 614. The Gadaria (Caste No 73).— The Gadaria is the shepherd and
53 goatherd of Hindustan, and is almost confined to the Jami.a zone of the
54 Panjiib. But even in that part of the Province he has almost ceased to be
55 distinctively a shepherd, as the cultivating classes themselves often pasture
56 their own flocks, and has become rather a blanket weaver, being indeed as
57 often called Kainbalia as Gadaria. The Gadarias are Hindu almost without
58 exception.
59 615. The Kanera (Caste No. 170).— A small Muhammadan caste, found
60 only on the lower courses of the Satluj, Chanab, and -Indus. They must be
61 distinguished from the Kandera or Penja of Dehli. They are a river tribe,
62 and their original occupation was plaiting mats from grass and leaves, making
63 string, and generally working in grass and reeds ; but they have now taken
64 to weaving generally, and even cultivate land. They are a low caste, slightly
65 but only slightly superior in standing and haliits to the oilier grass-workers
66 and tribes of the river banks. "A Kaneri by caste, and her name is Ghuliim
67 " Fatimah, and she is an associate of the gentlemen of the desert (wild-
68 " pigs.) ! "
69 WATERMEN, BOATMEN, AND COOKS.
70 616. Watermen, boatmen, and cooks.— Abstract No. 101 below* gives
71 the figures for this great grouj), in whicli I have included the Jhinwar, the
72 Machhi, the Bhatyara, the Bharlihunja, and the Malhih. It is generally be-
73 lieved that all these men are of the same caste, Kahar being their usual name
74 in the North-West Provinces, Jhinwar in the east of the Panjiib where they
75 are for the most part Hindu, aiid Machhi in the west of province where they are
76 mostlj Musalman. Being essentially fishermen and watermen, they are most
77 numerous in proportion to total population in the western and central districtg