==============+===========+=============+==========+========= | Sub-castes. | District. +~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+ Total. | Jethwant. | Kasipgotra. | Others. | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~ Mathura | | | 24 | 24 Hamîrpur | | | 1 | 1 Allahâbâd | | | 25 | 25 Benares | | | 12,499 | 12,499 Mirzapur | | | 10,807 | 10,807 Ghâzipur | 2,242 | 53 | 30,178 | 32,473 Ballia | 5,910 | 30 | 465 | 6,405 Gorakhpur | 10,317 | 957 | 2,767 | 14,041 Basti | | | 552 | 552 Azamgarh | | | 8 | 8 Lucknow | | | 13 | 13 Faizâbâd | | | 1 | 1 Sultânpur | | | 137 | 137 +~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~ Total | 18,469 | 1,040 | 57,477 | 76,986 ==============+===========+=============+==========+========= Bisâti—(Bisât “goods spread out for sale”; Sanskrit, visrita “extended”).—A small pedlar, hawker, or huckster, who sells petty goods of European manufacture, such as needles and pins, tape, buttons, stationery, hardware, etc. They are a purely occupational caste, and nearly all Muhammadans. According to the Census Returns they have a curious list of sectional names—Banjâra, Mughal, Râjput, and Shaikh. The Bisâti sells much the same class of goods as the Boxwâla (“the man of the box”), who hawks small ware at European houses. DISTRIBUTION OF THE BISÂTIS ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1891.