4 HUGHES: DALTONGANJ COAL-FIELD, 
head of Rájpáts is somewhat questionable, as their features do not 
exhibit the regularity of their up-country representatives.* 
The story that the Chéros tell of their immigration is, that twelve . 
thousand of them took service as soldiers under a Rajah of Palámaun, then 
dethroned him and conferred the sovereignty upon one of their own tribe. 
Since that time every dond-fide Chéro has borne in addition to his other 
> Khitábs? that of Bárah ۰ 
There are a few Musalmáns; but Palámaun is essentially a Hindu 
district, distinguished as the home of the Chéros and in a lesser degree 
of the Desááris and the Khairwás.T There are many Ooraons and 
Bhüíans from whose ranks able workmen might be recruited for colliers. 
* It is said that the Chéros are yet to be met with in Kumáon, but my enquiries up 
to the present date have failed to prove the correctness of this assertion. I was, however, 
struck by the similarity in the air of a song which I heard some women of the Domra 
caste near Dhunneea Kot singing, and that with which I was familiar in Palámauü. 
A Chaprasi also who was with me recognised the air, and on my asking if he had ever 
heard such an air in Palamaun, he at once replied that he had.—T. W. H. Almorah, 
September 1869. 
T The remaining castes are— 
Bráhmans.* Kümhár * (earthen-pot-maker). 
Bahman (spurious brahmins with title Kasyárá * (brass-worker). 
of Singh). | Khairwá (with title of Singh). 
Beldar * (tank digger). Dhuniá (cotton-worker).* 
Bhiian. Dhanuk.* 
Bhogta (with title of Gunjoo). 
Baré (pan-sellers).* 
Barhi * (carpenter). 
Gwalor.* 
Gülgüliá (beggars). 
Gararía * (shepherd). 
Stiri (wine-seller). 
Sonar * (gold-worker). 
Tathéra (copper-worker). 
Chamár.* 
Kürmí* (Farmers). 
Káist * (scribe). 
Koírí * (vegetable-grower). 
Kahár * (bearer). 
(1928 )) 
Düsád * (chowkedar caste). 
Dome. 
Dhobí * (washerman). 
Dhángar, alias Ooraon.* 
Desuárí (with title of Singh). 
Lohár.* 
Mallá * (fisherman). 
Mali * (gardener). 
M ásáhá (beggar). 
Mihtar.* 
Nao * (barber). 
Passí * (toddy-seller). 
Rájpát.* 
Raj Dhat* (wandering poets of the Hindus). 
