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Whether from the example of the Rajpoots, or for other reasons, 
these Bramins of the Unterbed and Oude have taken largely to the 
profession of arms, not usually much followed by them in other parts 
ofthe country; and beyond their own boundaries in their Military 
character they are reputed the most- overbearing and disagreeable 
of their race. Yet I fancy that it is rather their profession than their 
natural character, which has attached to them this bad name. Numer- 
ous as they were in the Sepoy Army and foully as that Army 
behaved, I cannot find that the Bramins were really by any means 
worse than others; some of the most Bramin Regiments stood the 
best. And at home they seem to be quiet and peaceable enough. 
The Bramin district of Cawnpore pays, I think, a higher revenue rate 
than any other in India, except the peculiar Delta of the Cauvery about 
Tanjore. Numerous as the Bramins are in this part of the country 
and apt as soldiers, they have not been the dominant race. I do not 
know much of the history of the Cawnpore district, but I have never 
heard of Bramin rule ; and certainly over the river, in Oude, the rule 
is with the Rajpoots, not with the Bramins. All the really old 
Talookdars are Rajpoots, as are the Rajas of Bundlecund and Baghel- 
cund beyond the Jumna. 
IT am not sure what is the extent of the Bramin population in 
Bundlecund. In the Banda District I think that they are common, 
and certainly in ‘ Baghelcund,’ or Rewah, they are very numerous ; but 
whether the same martial race, I do not know, for there they conde- 
scend to very menial services and groom most of the horses on the 
Jubbulpore road. 
In the proper Bramin country, I think that some of them affect 
the Rajpoot prejudice against actually holding the plough, but 
even there they perform every other agricultural labour. Agri- 
cultural and military as they are, they rejoice in the classic names of 
Dobee, Tewaree, and Choubee, that is men of two Veds, of three Veds, 
of four Veds, and are considered to be very high caste. Between the 
Ganges and the Gogra, as we recede from the Ganges, the population 
becomes more Rajpoot than Bramin, but there are many Bramins 
‘about ‘ Ajoodia,’ the old ‘ Oadh.’ Beyond the Gogra again is a nu- 
merous Bramin population of a different tribe from the martial 
Bramins of the Ganges, humbler, and not soldiers, Thence to the 
