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any critical inves or ce As regards the other group [am 
inclined to think t t Hodgson’s information was correct. He 
was quite a good Shae ver, and a resident in Nepal for years. 
His statements show very few mistakes, and none of an obvious 
and glaring kind. When therefore he gives so many details 
about the Sinha-Khwo, it has to be admitted that the tradition 
of such a group was still eee in his time in Nepal, 
although very naturally it may have died out later. 
nly one more point remains, a the statement of the 
Gubhaju that most of the Awals are Jyapoos. Hodgson 
states that in his time the Uda Awals supplemented tile-mak- 
ing with trade and agriculture ; although this is not mentioned 
by Oldfield. The la iter however never gives so much detail 
as Hodgson. It is not at all improbable that the Udas may 
have given up tile- etn in favour of the more dignified 
pursuit—at any rate according to the recent Brahmanic 
influence to which they have submitted—of trade, and the work 
of tile-making may have passed more or less completely in nto 
the hands of the next group of people in Bauddha Newar 
Society. 
