Sîtapur | ... | ... | ... | 467 | ... | ... | 2,235 | 2,702 Hardoi | ... | ... | ... | 8,088 | ... | ... | 3,314 | 11,402 Kheri | ... | ... | ... | 1,121 | ... |1,005 | 1,405 | 3,531 Faizâbâd | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 14 | 15 Bahrâich | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 10 | 10 Sultânpur | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 3 +~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~+~~~~~~+~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~ Total | 1,448 | 2,478 | 1,103 | 48,446 |13,874| 7,504|71,336 | 146,188 ===============+=======+=======+=========+==========+======+======+=======+========= Dhârhi (possibly from Sans. dhrista, “impudent”), a tribe of dancers and singers of whom there is a Hindu and a Muhammadan branch. They have been described under one of their many names, Kingariya or Kingriya, in another place. Another name for them is Pâwariya or Pâwanriya (from the foot (pânw) carpet (pânwara) they use). In the hills, though socially ranked with Doms, they do not belong to them, for they properly include only those Khasiyas who have been put out of caste for some offence or other and their offspring form a new caste with the special avocation of singing and dancing. [Internal structure.] 2. The Census lists show forty sections. Many of these are local as Audhiya, Balrâmpuri, Chaurasiya, Desi, Gujarâti, Jaunpuri, Haripuriya, Kanaujiya, Madhesiya, Pachhwâhan, and Sarwariya. Others connect them with well-known castes or tribes, as Bânsphor, Boriya, Dhelphor, Dusâdh, Ghosi, Kewat. [Occupation.] 3. The Dhârhi has two distinct functions. In the first place he is a musician and singer, and appears at houses on occasions of festivity, such as a marriage or when a woman is purified after the birth pollution and rejoins the household. He and the women who accompany him, who are usually of equivocal reputation, sing and play the double drum (mridang) or the guitar (tambûra), for which he gets presents of grain, money or clothes. Secondly, the Hindu Dhârhi keeps swine and acts in many villages as the priest of the local god (Gânwdeota, deohâr) cleans and plasters his platform, and takes anything in the way of an offering which is not consumed by the worshippers themselves. [Social rules.] 4. The Dhârhi from his habits of begging and going about with women of bad character has rather an unsavoury reputation, and socially ranks very little above the Chamâr. They permit widow-marriage, divorce and remarriage of divorced women, but if a woman separate from her husband without cause she must repay through her second husband any charges which may have been incurred in her first marriage. Muhammadan Dhârhis have their marriages done, if they are well-off, by the Qâzi; if they are poor, by the village Dafâli.