1849.] 



Circar of WarunguL 



Yelmees. — The Eajpoots of Telingana, although theii' preten- 

 sions to fill the place of the Shatryas are sneered at and denied by 

 the Brahmins, are a manly race, fond of the chase, and, from veiling 

 their women, are reckoned among the Khooshbash, Some Desh- 

 mookhs are of this caste, the Sumtamiinuyum and Pakhall Desh- 

 mookhs being both Yelmees, They are cultivators and soldiers, 

 but few enlist into the service of the Company or the Nizam. As 

 to their origin, they were in all probability the fighting class of Te- 

 iingana before that country became Brahminical, and they need 

 care little for the Brahmins denying them the rank they covet, as 

 the similar claims of the Eajpoots are rejected by the same au- 

 thority. They are all followers of Vishnoo. There are a few Eaj- 

 poots about towns, usually in the military service of Grovernment„ 



Miissulmauns. — Most of these are Government employes, but 

 the carpet weavers of Mutwarrah are all Mahometans, and very 

 bad specimens of the faithful they are, being drunken, turbulent, 

 and lazy. Some cultivate the lands of the Peerzada, and a few 

 are farmers on their own account, and donvas, and some are 

 tradesmen. The butcher being universally a Mahometan. Brah- 

 mins, Yelmas, and Mahometans are of the Khooshbash, and have 

 certain remittances of rent from Grovernment allowed them, as 

 from the circumstance of keeping their women behind the purdah, 

 they are denied their aid in their labour ; this allowance, or mooaf 

 as it is called, varies in the grain rent from one and half maund to 

 two maunds in the cundy. As before stated they are not subject 

 to puttees. 



Coonhee: {Capulloo — in Teloogoo.) — Of these there are no less 

 than seven different sub-castes, who neither eat together nor inter- 

 marry, existing in this Circar alone. But there is said to be in 

 Telingana as many as twelve. 



1st. Mootat, 2d. Goreewar^ 3d. Luchamurry , 4th. Pahenat, 5th. 

 Cordiewar, 6th. Gonewar, and 7th. Chutteepooivar ; the first four are 

 reckoned the superior classes, from the circumstance of some 

 Deshmookhs belonging to them. The three last are the more 

 temperate, and are said to deny themselves flesh and toddy. 

 The Chetteepoowar are Lingayets. 



The Coonbees are very industrious, although social evils have 

 rendered theu^ labour of little avail in elevating themselves to a 

 ■ condition superior to that in which they were born. The sowing 



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