92, The Ethnoloyy of India. 
of the unpadded recruits looked at first rather lanky. The modern 
Rajpoots are quite as Hindu as, and a good deal more prejudiced 
than, the Bramins. In their own villages they are pleasant good 
fellows enough, but as Sepoys they were a disagreeable overbear- 
ing set, and, so far as L can gather, were upon the whole about the 
worst class in the mutiny. 
As agriculturalists their style of cultivation, &., is much the same 
as that of the Jats, although very greatly inferior. They are very 
fond of land, and do not affect the finer garden cultivation but the 
broad farming style of agriculture. They also keep cattle when the 
country is fitted for it, and are very fond of laying their hands on 
other people’s cattle when they have the chance,—a weakness from 
which the Jats also are not altogether free. 
They are as a rule wholly un-literary, and very much confine them- 
selves to the two professions of agriculture and arms. 
The Rajpoots everywhere speak dialects of the ordinary Hindee. 
I am not aware that any traces of any other language have ever been 
found among them. 
Tur Koonsers on KoorMess. 
To the south of the Rajpoots and Jats, the country is mainly occu- 
pied by the class above mentioned. In all the central and eastern 
parts of the N. W. Provinces, or in fact of Hindustan generally, the 
Koormees are scattered about in considerable numbers as a well- 
known and very industrious class of quiet cultivators. They own 
villages of their own, and are also more widely spread in detached 
families or groups of families. They affect the finer garden style 
of cultivation much more than Jats and Rajpoots, and like the Jats 
are assisted by industrious women. 
As I shall afterwards notice, the Koonbees seem to be nearly con- 
nected with the Mallies, whose name we apply to the whole profession 
of gardeners. 
The name is variously written, Koormee or Coormee, Kunabi, 
Kunbee or Koonbee, and there is no doubt that the terms are syno- 
nymous. 
Tn Hindustan the Koormees do not go much beyond their own 
agricultural calling, but they are not absolutely unknown as Sepoys, 
