﻿452 AN ACCOUNT OF THE BAZEEGURS, 



liooVy Dorkhiee and Giingwar ; but the diflference 

 seems only in name, for they live together and inter- 

 marry as one people ; they say they are descended 

 from four brothers of the same family. 



They profess to be Moofulmans *, that is, tlicy 

 undergo circumcision, and at their weddings and 

 burials a QazeedjiA Moolla attend to read tJie service ; 

 thus far and no farther are they Moosulmans. Of 

 the prophet tliey seem to have little knowledge, and 

 though in the creed which some of.them can in dis- 

 tinctly recollect, thc}^ repeat his. titles, yet ^yhen 

 questioned on the subject, they can give no further 

 account of him, than that he was a Saint or Peer. 

 They acknowledge a God, and in all their hopes and 

 fears address him, except when such address might 

 be supposed to interfere in Tansyn''s department, a 

 famous musician who tlourislied, I believe, in the 

 time of Ukbur, and whom they consider as their 



tutelary 



* A person well versed in the Eastern bnguages, willofren be able 

 to tell the nation to which any professional man really belongs, from 

 the name he assumes as such. When a Sonar or goldsmith is termed 

 Zurgur or Sadit-kar, he will in general be a M'iofulman, and in this 

 way we meet with Joolahhy Mochee Dttrxee, Hitjam, ^ssukha?!^ 

 Moosunv^vjr, Mee,afijeey instead of the H'lyidwixt'e words Tantee^ Chu- 

 mar, Soojee, Na^ee, Kut^hilk, PatiJe, Chitern^ for a iVeanjer, a Shoe- 

 7naker, Taylor^ Barber, Story-teller, School/naster, and Painter in suc- 

 cession. The word Hnlalkhor^ which is applied to i\ Sxveeper, gene- 

 rally indicates the fame difcrimination of a Moo!t(lmn?i, as B,'mngee 

 does to a Hindoo; a truth which the two nations acknowledge with 

 great reluctance. Tlje reason is obviously founded on that pr'tde of 

 cait which they both support, often at our cxpence. In this instance 

 they will stoutly deny the fact stated here, unless the inquirer knows 

 enough of the language to call a //« /a /,i^or before them 'xi Moofulmansy 

 and desire him to repeat his creed, Src, In this and the other duties of 

 Jslamtan, they are no doubt often so defective that we cannot venture 

 to affirm they are ortliodox Mochummudam, any more than we can vouch 

 for the R^hutjgees being perfect Hindoos; all we dare in candour allege, 

 being, tlr^t these people respective! v lean, in their belief, worship and 

 manners, much more to the one religion than the other, as the text will 

 elucidate in the Nuts' history before us. It is a curious enough circum- 

 stance, that th»re are certain employments here engrossed almost ex- 

 clusively by the Moo/ulmans ; among these the Bihlshlees or Suqqas who 

 carry water, and the Suiees ox grooms may be enumerated as the mosc 

 prominent. 4 



