The tribes and castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Volume 2 (of 4)Crooke, William
History
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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District. | Number.
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Dehra Dûn | 127
Sahâranpur | 4,203
Muzaffarnagar | 4,920
Meerut | 10,224
Bulandshahr | 7,977
Aligarh | 12,278
Mathura | 6,263
Agra | 10,573
Farrukhâbâd | 291
Mainpuri | 1,111
Etâwah | 573
Etah | 4,265
Bareilly | 1,996
Bijnor | 3,476
Budâun | 2,107
Morâdâbâd | 3,380
Shâhjahânpur | 350
Pilibhît | 595
Cawnpur | 418
Fatehpur | 297
Bânda | 63
Hamîrpur | 78
Allahâbâd | 370
Jhânsi | 442
Jâlaun | 99
Lalitpur | 6
Benares | 46
Ghâzipur | 25
Ballia | 265
Gorakhpur | 6
Azamgarh | 2
Tarâi | 664
Lucknow | 1,405
Unâo | 20
Râê Bareli | 55
Sîtapur | 219
Hardoi | 18
Kheri | 211
Faizâbâd | 62
Gonda | 17
Bahrâich | 244
Sultânpur | 95
Partâbgarh | 9
Bârabanki | 272
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Total | 80,147
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Biloch, Baloch, Biluch.—Identified by Professor Max Müller [114] with
the Sanskrit mlechchha, “a foreigner, outcast, non-Aryan.”—The
enumeration at the last Census has failed to discriminate between two
different though probably originally-allied races—the ordinary Biloch
and the predatory Biloch or Rind of the Districts of the Upper Duâb.
Another theory of the origin of the name is given by Colonel Möckler in
a paper published in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
for 1893:—
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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