200 



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Expenses. 

 Diet expenses 

 Clothing expenses ... 

 Wages to barber and washerman 

 Purchasing articles of household furniture 



Thus, deducting their expenditure from their income, they 

 appear to make an annual saving of Rs. 20. 



(4) Cattle. — They have a calf worth Rs. 2. 



(5) Tools of Trade. — Five tools of their trade are valued at 

 Rs. 3 9 annas. 



(6) Household Furniture. — Their household furniture is of the 

 ordinary kind, and is valued at Rs. 19 14 annas. 



(7) Food. — Their food consists of maize, bajra, and masina 

 in the winter season, and of barley, bejhar, gram, and a little 

 quantity of wheat in the summer and rainy seasons. Wheat 

 is specially used at festivals and in foods for guests. They eat 

 pulse of all kinds, and for vegetables radishes and fcenugreek, 

 and occasionally potatoes and ghuiyans. Their average diet 

 expenses amount to 1 anna 9 pies per diem, or Rs. 42/8 per 

 annum. Whatever quantity of grain they require in addition 

 to that received by them in wages from the cultivators they 

 purchase from the market. 



(8) Their house is a kucha* one, valued at Rs. 5. A rough 

 plan of it is as below. 



West 



South 



North 



(9) There are no boys or girls to be married. A boy's 

 marriage cost Rs. 20 and a girl's Rs. 15. Some six guests 

 collect at the marriage for three days. 



* That is, made of mud or sun-dried bricks. 



