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would admit the equality, but the Kangra and Jummoo Rajas and 
their clans affect among themselves to be of very blue blood indeed, and 
they are certainly very fine handsome men. The Kangra Rajpoots in 
particular are very fair and handsome and High-Arian looking. I 
fancy that in all these hills, for a considerable distance to the east, 
there is a great deal of Kashmeeree or rather old Kasha blood. The 
women of the hills are in deserved repute and much sought after 
in the plains. The Kangra Rajas have endless genealogies, but I 
think that their clansmen are somewhat effeminate looking and not 
very first rate soldiers. The men of the Jummoo country, the im- 
mediate clansmen and subjects of the Maharaja “of Cashmere, (and 
who also occupy the west of the Kangra district), commonly called 
Dogras, are not spoken of with so much Hindoo respect, and are not 
so pretty and be-jewelled looking as the Kangra men, but they are 
much more robust and brave. In the Punjab force, no men are pre- 
ferred to them as soldiers ; they are quiet, staunch, steady and reliable, 
without the disagreeable Hindustanee airs of the old Sepoy Rajpoots. 
The Rajpoot population of these hills must be very considerable. 
Hast of the Sutlej, in the Simla hills, many of the Rajas and their 
followers are Rajpoots, but most of the agriculturalists are of another 
caste called Kanaits. 
A large proportion of the Rajpoots scattered about the Hastern 
Punjab, Cis-Sutle] territory, and Dehli districts are now Mahomme- 
dans, as are occasional Rajpoot villages all over Hindustan and a good 
many Rajpoot Rajas, this being no doubt the result of the favour 
shown to the Rajpoots by the Mogul Emperors; but east of Dehli 
conversion is quite the exception, by far the greater number are 
staunch Hindus. 
In the Gangetic valley the body of the Rajpoot population may 
be said to le next to the Jats to the east, in the middle Doab, 
Rohilcund, and Oude; and still farther east the country is shared 
with a Bramin population. Before Rohilcund (given as a jagheer to 
Rohillas) acquired its present name, it was known as the Rajpoot 
Province of Katerh, and to the present day in all lower Rohileund 
the Rajpoot communities, (they are there called Thakoors) are strong 
and numerous. They are also numerous in Western Oude, but for 
what reason I know not, neither the Rohilcund men nor those of 
