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the middling and lower classes are too scanty to enable either class to live 

 on such an article of luxury. Tlie former mix with wheat, split-peas, 

 vetches, and other vegetable productions : the lower classes subsist upon 

 barley, millets, maize, tares, vetches, &c. But this is luxury compared with 

 the food of the lower classes in the villages ; their earnings, rising only 

 from four shillings to six shillings per mensem, force a recourse to tlie 

 vilest food. Tiie more scrupulous castes are obliged to mix witli the coarse 

 grains above-mentioned, wild roots, herbs, and insects ; while the outcasts, 

 as the numerous race of Chamurs, Kanjars, Diisdds, &c., scruple not to 

 eat vermin, dead fish, and carrion. 



The statistical information above given affords abundant proof of the 

 superior industry of the Hindu to that of the Mahomedan. Of the 

 Hiildus nearly four-fifths are here found to be engaged in retail trade and 

 manufactures : of the Mahomedan part of the population, only about three- 

 fiftiis are engaged in the same pursuits. The Mahomedans of tliis part of 

 tlie world iiave hitherto been little used to money-getting trades and 

 professions : war and sovereign rule have been their chief occupations. 

 On the other hand, accumulation of wealth has for ages been the darlintr 

 jjassion of the Hindu ; their maxims, and habits of life, peculiarly fit them 

 for retail trades, commerce and manufactures. 



It will be observed that, setting aside the Nurbcifs, who are con- 

 jectured to have been originally converts from Hinduism, the industry of 

 the Mahomedans in Bareilly is, for the most part, confined to manufactures 

 having relation to war, as sword cutlery, bow and arrow making, saddlery, 

 farriery, elephant, camel or bullock driving, horse dealing, &c. ; or to those 

 fine arts, inventions and luxuries, which may be supposed to have been in- 

 duced by their forefathers from Persia or Arabia, as the manufiicture of 

 fine carpets, embroidery, hukkas, book-binding, and the trades of dyers, 

 tobacco and beer dealers, engravers, turners, &c., or to trades which religious 

 obstacles prevent the Hindu from exercising, as those of shoemakers, 

 curriers, butchers, bakers, tailors^, water-carriers, milk-dealers, &c. 



In the distribution of industry above exhibited, the i)olitical economist 

 will not find much to gratify his ardour for social improvement. The amount 

 of labour, a])plied to the production even of the conveniences of life, he 

 will find very limited, and what is employed in the cultivation of the fine 

 arts, or in the supply of the luxuries of civilized society, very small indeed ; 

 he will regret, that division of labour, ingenuity, and enterprize, should 



