90 The Ethnology cf India. 
his territory. The Boondeelas of Bundlecund are not, I beHeve, con- 
sidered to be very pure Rajpoots; they have probably suffered some 
intermixture, but they are notoriously bold and martial, form a domi- 
nant aristocracy, and used to be very troublesome to us. I do not 
know the proportion of Rajpoot population in Scindia’s territories to 
the west, but believe that it is numerous. In Malwa, Rajpoots of the 
Rahtore, Chouhan, Sesodya and other clans form a large proportion of 
the population, and all the surrounding hilly country which is not 
held by pure Aborigines seems to have been from very old times in 
the possession of Rajpoot or semi-Rajpoot chiefs. The Mewar or 
Oodeypore Rajpoots, occupying a strong and elevated country in the 
west, claim to be the most ancient of the race; and I have seen it 
stated that some of the western Rajpoots are comparatively fair, with 
light or grey eyes. Ii so, that would seem to indicate that they 
reached their present location by a direct route from the west, and 
not by doubling back from the Ganges, as is supposed to have been 
the case in northern Rajpootana. 
Tn the history of Guzerat the Rajpoots are very famous, and many 
of them seem to have been of the same high-caste tribes whose blood 
is reputed the best in the east, the Waghels, for instance, being (it 
appears) the same as the Baghels. They are evidently still numerous, 
but I have not been able to ascertain what proportion of the popula- 
tion they form, and to what extent they take part in the actual cul- 
tivation. Forbes does not speak of them as if they were among the 
most numerous cultivators. . 
In Kathywar, Rajpoots seem to be numerous, and from the practice 
of infanticide we may suppose that they consider themselves high- 
caste, but I cannot exactly make out whether the Kathis are counted 
as Rajpoots, or whether the many petty chiefs of Kathywar are prin- 
cipally Kathis or proper Rajpoots. The Kathis seem to have been 
undoubtedly immigrants from the west and at one time neighbours 
and allies of Jats. 
In Lower Scinde there are undoubted traces of ancient Rajpoot 
rule, and the Summa Rajpoots ruled more recently under the Mahom- 
medan emperors. Farther west, in Beloochistan, there seem to be 
traces of Hindu rule of a character more orthodox than that of the 
Jats, but whether the Rajpoots ever had dominion there, I am unable 
to say. 
