The tribes and castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Volume 2 (of 4)Crooke, William
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The tribes and castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Volume 2 (of 4)
Crooke, William
Caste -- India -- History; Hindus -- India; Tribes -- India -- History
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Districts. | Number.
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Sahâranpur | 12
Bulandshahr | 2
Mathura | 7
Agra | 9
Farrukhâbâd | 7
Mainpuri | 32
Etâwah | 117
Etah | 2
Bareilly | 36
Budâun | 30
Morâdâbâd | 219
Shâhjahânpur | 14
Cawnpur | 868
Fatehpur | 5,560
Bânda | 8,159
Hamîrpur | 3,546
Allahâbâd | 813
Jhânsi | 369
Jâlaun | 55
Lalitpur | 4
Benares | 532
Mirzapur | 162
Jaunpur | 799
Ghâzipur |15,176
Ballia | 1,090
Gorakhpur | 3,613
Azamgarh | 5,158
Lucknow | 984
Unâo | 9,024
Râê Bareli | 2,099
Sîtapur | 299
Hardoi | 284
Kheri | 222
Faizâbâd | 13
Gonda | 5
Bahrâich | 69
Sultânpur | 364
Partâbgarh | 593
Bârabanki | 410
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Total |60,727
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Diwâna, “those possessed of an evil spirit (dev, div), mad”,—a term
applied in these Provinces to an order of Muhammadan faqîrs, who have
not been separately enumerated in the returns of the last Census.
In the Panjâb they are Hindus, wear uncut hair, a necklace of shells,
and a large feather in their turbans. There is a considerable colony of
them in connection with the shrine of the saint Qâsim Sulaimâni, near
the fort of Chunâr, in the Mirzapur district.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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