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a large proportion of them are in a respectable well-to-do position, 

 and many of them are very well educated. After all a well-educated 

 Mahommedan has much more in common with us than most Hindus, 

 and comes much nearer our idea of a gentleman. It may be, too, that 

 these Pathans retain some little trace of that non-Indian character 

 which makes us readily become familiar with Affghans. Altogether 

 I have no hesitation in saying that (putting the Punjab apart), among 

 Hindustanees, the Pathans are by far the best class with whom we 

 come in contact. They have always been very numerous in our 

 Irregular Cavalry and also had a large share in our Civil Service. I 

 shall be sorry, if, partly on account of the more insinuating and it 

 may be in some respects sharper character of subservient Hindus, and 

 partly from the difficulty of imposing our education on those who 

 have already an education of their own, these and other Mahommedans 

 are gradually extruded from the public service. 



Pathan settlements are dotted here and there about the Punjab, 

 but they are not very numerous. In Hindustan they are more 

 ■so. They are found about Dehli, and are very numerous in the 

 Upper Doab and Rohilcund, though it must not be supposed that 

 the latter is really a Rohilla country ; it is only a Rohilla jagheer, and 

 the Pathans, though positively numerous, are relatively but a small 

 minority of the population. It may be mentioned that the term 

 1 Rohilla' does not signify any particular tribe, but is applied in India 

 to Pathans generally, meaning apparently " mountaineer." The Rohil- 

 cund and Dehli Provinces are the chief nurseries of Pathan soldiers, 

 &c, but all over Hindustan, and indeed all over India, Pathan Princi- 

 palities and Jagheers, Pathan settlements, and Pathan families are 

 found here and there. 



It will be well here to dispose of the other Mahommedan settlers, 

 that is, Mahommedans who do not own or cannot be traced to a 

 Hindu origin. "With the exception of the Pathans, their origin is, 

 in fact, generally obscure and doubtless very mixed. 



The name of Mogul is assumed by but few, and whatever the word 

 may originally have been, it must be understood that it does not now 

 in India in any degree mean ' Mongol.' There is no ethnological 

 trace of Mongol immigration into India. Even the leaders who 

 inherited Mongol claims had, in fact, changed their blood in passing 



