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Western Oude entered the Sepoy Army in large numbers. In the 
Central Doab, in the districts of Mynpooree, Futtehgurh, Htawah, &e. 
Rajpoots are numerous, and a good many of them served in the army. 
The Raja of Mynpooree is, I think, one of the highest of the famous 
Chouhan clan. The lower Doab is, as I have before noticed, more a 
Bramin country ; but Eastern Oude, especially most of the broad tract 
between the Gogra and the Ganges, is the home of the great Rajpoot 
population which supplied so large a proportion of the Sepoy Army. 
At home these Rajpoots are by no means a loose military class, but 
a purely agricultural population. The prejudice against the particular 
act of holding the plough which so many of them affect, is reduced 
to the narrowest possible limits, and many ex-Sepoys may now be 
seen grubbing up weeds, raising water by manual labour, and performing 
all the lowest agricultural functions. Baiswara, the country of the 
Bais Rajpoots, lying almost parallel to the Bramin country of the 
lower Doab, is a famous nursery of Sepoys. In all this part of the 
country, so far as there still subsist ancient superior rights in the 
land, they belong to the heads of Rajpoot clans. 
Some of the inferior clansmen hold subordinate tenures and village 
proprietorships, but the great mass of the Rajpoots of Oude are now 
reduced to the position of mere ryots, in which capacity they are 
much intermixed with Bramins. Many of the superior rights have 
passed away to modern men. 
Passing to the east of Oude, Rajpoots are pretty numerous in 
Azimghur and Ghazeepore, but, as I have already mentioned, in the 
surrounding districts and those farther to east, the chief Rajas and 
landholders are the bastard Bramins or ‘ Bhamuns’ whose clansmen 
abound in Behar. In the Arrah district only (in the east) in the small 
Doab between the Soane and the Ganges, the Rajpoots are strong and 
numerous. Their leader was the famous rebel landholder, Koer Sing, 
and they supplied to the Native Army the numerous class known 
as ‘ Bhojpore’ Sepoys. 
This is almost the limit of Rajpoot ethnological occupation to the 
east, but turning round to the south-west, the Raja of Rewah is 
chief of the Baghel Rajpoots (whence his country is called Baghelcund), 
and has no doubt a numerous following of his clansmen, though 
Aborigines on one side and Bramins on another are also numerous in 
