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torious Granga Buksh. This Granga Bnksh, in the words of Sleeman, 

 11 became enlisted into the tribe of Rajputs, and his sister was married 

 11 to the Powar (Rajput) Raja of Etonda. Raja Yodha Sing, is her 

 " son. Sahuj Ram of Pokhura, pergunnah Hydergurh, of the Ameth- 

 '* na tribe of Rajputs, married a daughter of Gunga Buksh." 



The transformation, in this instance, from a low caste village watch- 

 man, to a high caste Rajput noble, occupied no more than four gene- 

 rations ! 



Second. The Raotars of this district are avowedly Rajputs sprung 

 from a Brahmana father and Ahir mother (and I have said that Sir 

 H. Elliot thought Ahirs akin to Bhars.) The daughters of these 

 Raotars many into the best Rajput families in the land. 



Third. One of the original Pulwar (Rajput) colonizers of this 

 and the Azimgurh district, besides having a wife of his own class 

 from whom the talookdars of Birhur are descended, took also an 

 Ahirin. a Bharin, and a Daivi (demon) to wife, and the progeny of 

 these women are now Rajputs. The talookdars of Tigra and Morerah 

 of this district are of the number of their descendants. Further de- 

 tails of this family will be found in the Surhurpur Report, but I 

 may mention that the Raj Kumar Thakurs, who consider themselves 

 to be Chowhans of Mynpoorie, the cream of Rajputs, and a most 

 exclusive clan, do not scruple to marry their daughters to the des- 

 cendants of the low caste Daive ! 



These latter transformations, however, took more generations to 

 bring about, than did the first given above. 



These are notable instances of the descendants of people of low 

 caste being raised in the social scale, and I therefore do not see why it 

 may not fairly be assumed, that most of our Rajputs of these days have 

 resulted from the general amalgamation of the Bhar and Kshatriya 

 races, if, indeed, they were not originally one and the same. 



There is one more point I would mention. Raja Bucktawur Sing 

 told Sleeman that the having to take low caste wives was one of the 

 punishments inflicted on Rajputs for killing their daughters. In 

 connexion with this subject, I would state that a wholesale system 

 was brought to light in this district only last year, while I was in 

 charge, of Brahmanas and Kshatriyas of apparent respectability traffick- 

 ing in low caste girls just as they do in bullocks, procuring them as 



