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2nd, the Merhotas; 3rd, the Khannas; and 4th, the Kapurs, who are again divided, the first into two, and
the others into three classes. The principal of the Barajati subdivisions are Chopra, Talwar, Tunnuhn, Seighul, Kakar, Mahta, &c. Some of the Bawanjais are as follows Bhandari, Mahendro, Sethis, Suri, Sahni, Anand, Bhasin, Sodhi, Bedi, Tihan, Bhallah, &c. :
The Aroras claim to be the offspring of Kshattriya lathers and of Vaisya or Sudra mothers, and their legend is that they were settled in numbers about Uch, when the Kshattriyas, being expelled from Delhi, migrated to Tatta and other places in Sind, and subsequently to Multan. During their wars the Kshattriyas asked the aid of the Aroras, but they were refused assistance. The Kshattriyas in consequence induced the Brahmans to debar the Aroras from the exercise of religious rites, and they thus remained proscribed for three hundred years, until Sidh Bhoja and Sidh Siama of Dipalpur readmitted them within the pale of Hinduism. The Hindu bankers of Shikarpur are Aroras, and the Hindu shopkeepers of Khorasan and Bokhara are likewise held by the people of the Punjab to be of the same race. The Aroras divide themselves into two main classes (1) Utradi, or of the north, and (2)' Dakhni, or of the south, and the latter has likewise an important subdivision named :
Duhuni. In the Lower Punjab and in Sind the whole Hindu trading population is included by the Muhammadans under the term 'Kirar'. In the Upper Punjab the word is used to denote a coward or one base and abject, and about Multan it is likewise expressive of contempt as well of a Hindu or a trafficker. In Central India the Kirars form a tribe, but the term there literally means dalesmen or foresters, although it has become the name of a class or tribe in the lapse of centuries. Professor Wilson somewhere, I think, identifies them with the Chirrhadae of the ancients, and indeed Kerat is one of the five Prasthas or regions of the Hindus, these being Chin Prasth, Yavan Prasth, Indr Prasth, Dakshan Prasth, and Kerat Prasth, which last is understood by the Indians to apply to the country between Ujjain and Orissa. (Cf. Wilson, Vishnu Pur an, p. 175 n., for the Keratas of that book) Further, the Brahmanical Gonds of the Nerbudda are styled 'Raj Gonds', while those who have not adopted Hinduism continue to be called 'Kirria Gonds', a term which seems to have a relation to their unaltered condition. .
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2nd, the Merhotas; 3rd, the Khannas; and 4th, the Kapurs, who are again divided, the first into two, and
the others into three classes. The principal of the Barajati subdivisions are Chopra, Talwar, Tunnuhn, Seighul, Kakar, Mahta, &c. Some of the Bawanjais are as follows Bhandari, Mahendro, Sethis, Suri, Sahni, Anand, Bhasin, Sodhi, Bedi, Tihan, Bhallah, &c. :
The Aroras claim to be the offspring of Kshattriya lathers and of Vaisya or Sudra mothers, and their legend is that they were settled in numbers about Uch, when the Kshattriyas, being expelled from Delhi, migrated to Tatta and other places in Sind, and subsequently to Multan. During their wars the Kshattriyas asked the aid of the Aroras, but they were refused assistance. The Kshattriyas in consequence induced the Brahmans to debar the Aroras from the exercise of religious rites, and they thus remained proscribed for three hundred years, until Sidh Bhoja and Sidh Siama of Dipalpur readmitted them within the pale of Hinduism. The Hindu bankers of Shikarpur are Aroras, and the Hindu shopkeepers of Khorasan and Bokhara are likewise held by the people of the Punjab to be of the same race. The Aroras divide themselves into two main classes (1) Utradi, or of the north, and (2)' Dakhni, or of the south, and the latter has likewise an important subdivision named :
Duhuni. In the Lower Punjab and in Sind the whole Hindu trading population is included by the Muhammadans under the term 'Kirar'. In the Upper Punjab the word is used to denote a coward or one base and abject, and about Multan it is likewise expressive of contempt as well of a Hindu or a trafficker. In Central India the Kirars form a tribe, but the term there literally means dalesmen or foresters, although it has become the name of a class or tribe in the lapse of centuries. Professor Wilson somewhere, I think, identifies them with the Chirrhadae of the ancients, and indeed Kerat is one of the five Prasthas or regions of the Hindus, these being Chin Prasth, Yavan Prasth, Indr Prasth, Dakshan Prasth, and Kerat Prasth, which last is understood by the Indians to apply to the country between Ujjain and Orissa. (Cf. Wilson, Vishnu Pur an, p. 175 n., for the Keratas of that book) Further, the Brahmanical Gonds of the Nerbudda are styled 'Raj Gonds', while those who have not adopted Hinduism continue to be called 'Kirria Gonds', a term which seems to have a relation to their unaltered condition. .
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