102 The Ethnology of India. 
in all Northern Rajpootana, and extend into Malwa and the adjoiming 
parts of Central India.* They there extend as far east as Bundle- 
cund, where one of the chiefs is a Goojar. But in the other 
direction they do not approach Goozerat, and, so far as I can learn 
have never been known there. I believe that the Bombay ‘ Goozerat’ 
is a name derived from some other source. Its proper form is said 
to be Gurjarat, derived from ‘ Gurjar’ Princes. I do not know the 
derivation of this last term, but there are Gurjat Chiefs in the 
Cuttack and Southern Nagpore territories, where there are no Goojats. 
I fancy, however, that I have heard it said (though I cannot now 
trace the source), that a similarity of names can be traced between 
places in Goozerat and in the Punjab Goojerat. If that be really so, 
it would open up an interesting inquiry. To prevent mistake, I 
should here notice that in the Bombay Presidency the word ‘ Goozar’ 
is used, not to signify a Goojar in the northern sense, but merely 
an inhabitant of Goozerat, as thus ‘Goozar Bramins,’ ‘ Goozar 
Banians.’ 
The Goojars are generally a fair good looking people, especially 
towards the frontier, and have no aboriginal traces about them. 
Those located to the east trace their origin from the west. All, I 
think, to the north of Dehli are now Mahommedans; but those to the 
east and south of that place are sometimes half-Mahommedans, some- 
times a sort of Hindus, though of so lax a character that I believe 
they are hardly admitted within the pale, and are considered to be in 
some degree a sect apart. They are sometimes said by the natives to 
have a language of their own; at least so I was told in the Punjab. 
It may not improbably be that this is only the patois of one province 
carried by them into another, but it would be interesting to inquire 
whether they may possibly have among themselves some sort of 
Gypsy tongue. Their most proper calling seems to be the keeping 
of cattle and buffaloes, not sheep ; but they do not generally exercise 
this as a mere caste profession among the general population. They 
* The last Nagpore Prince is stated to have been a Gioojar adopted into 
the family, the son of ‘Nane Goojar,’ but I apprehend that there must be 
some mistake, as the Nagpore family were, I believe, Maratta Koonbees, of the 
same race as the Sattara family. Hither ‘ Goojar’ must be here a mere name 
or title of the individual, or the allusion must be to some supposed indiscretion 
of a lady of the family. 
