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gewars are Lingayets and are husbandmen, shopkeepers, and gar- 

 deners. 



The Chumar are shoemakers, leather dressers and sometimes sad- 

 dlers. Last and most degraded are the mathers or sweepers, 

 who perform, along with the Chumars, the meanest, and most de- 

 grading offices, are executioners, offal and carrion eaters, sharing 

 the dead bodies of animals with the kite and the vulture. 



Besides the Siinnyasses, the Brahmin monks, and friars, and the 

 Satanies, men mostly of the better castes, who affect an ascetism, 

 which they seldom in reality practise, and who are the regular cler- 

 gy of the castes from which they spring, there are a host of beg- 

 gars, who prey on all castes, every one having such clients attach- 

 ed to it, and exact alms by importunity, threats and imprecations : 

 with the more timid and sedentary artizans, these sturdy beggars 

 are regarded with no common fear, mingled with a certain degree 

 of commisseration, some castes such as the Dungurs, have four or 

 five different sets of these dependants, the Coonbees have two, the 

 Chumars three, and so on. Some of these mendicants even of the 

 lowest castes, can read and write, their women are glee women, 

 prostitutes and fortune tellers. 



The Mahomedans who practise trades are, in all their ideas, Hin- 

 doos, save that they observe the Mohrum feast instead of the Hoo- 

 ley, and go to the Kazee, instead of a Satanee in their marriages, 

 they cannot understand the Koran, nor can they listen with advan- 

 tage to those who expounded it in Hindostani, few of them having 

 acquired that language, they affect caste, look on the Ashoorkha- 

 nas as their temples, and invoke some departed saint as their Grod. 



The trades they follow are, 



Cotton cleaning, which is performed by the lathabs. 

 "Woollen carpet weaving by Mohmen. 



Dubber or coopee making by Boozelgars, cotton carpet weaving 

 by G-alleechagars, Sicklegars are Mahomedans, and are armourers, 



There is also a caste of Mahomedan sweepers called Khakrob. 

 The "Woodewars and Yerkulwars were described in my former re- 

 port, and also the Koewars, those Telinghee speaking savages, who 

 have acquired a certain degree of civilization from the inhabitants 

 of the plains, having been instructed to till the ground about their 

 huts, and cultivate the coarser kinds of grain ; they are slaughter- 

 ers of kine and beef eaters, not even Hindoos in name : there is 

 yet a lower degree in savagery exhibited by the Gonds 3 the most 



