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Western Oiide entered the Sepoy Army in large numbers. In the 

 Central Doab, in the districts of Mynpooree, Futtehgurh, Etawah, &c. 

 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 Oiide 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 ' Bhojpove 1 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 



