==============+======== District. | Number. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~ Dehra Dûn | 41 Sahâranpur | 577 Muzaffarnagar | 1,072 Meerut | 2,016 Bulandshahr | 1,945 Aligarh | 512 Mathura | 987 Agra | 231 Farrukhâbâd | 50 Mainpuri | 73 Etâwah | 67 Etah | 98 Bareilly | 11 Bijnor | 815 Budâun | 434 Morâdâbâd | 490 Shâhjahânpur | 425 Pilibhît | 231 Cawnpur | 87 Bânda | 12 Hamîrpur | 7 Allahâbâd | 113 Jhânsi | 4 Jâlaun | 59 Benares | 153 Mirzapur | 22 Jaunpur | 314 Ghâzipur | 31 Ballia | 216 Gorakhpur | 809 Basti | 116 Azamgarh | 325 Tarâi | 223 Lucknow | 222 Unâo | 26 Sîtapur | 173 Hardoi | 170 Kheri | 308 Gonda | 95 Bahrâich | 79 Sultânpur | 12 Partâbgarh | 11 Bârabanki | 10 +~~~~~~~~ Total | 13,672 ==============+======== Bind.—A non-Aryan tribe in the Eastern Districts of the Division, and with scattered colonies elsewhere. The name is said to be derived from the Vindhya [118] hills of Central India. One legend quoted by Mr. Risley [119] tells “how a traveller passing by the foot of the hills heard a strange flute-like sound coming out of a clump of bamboos. He cut a shoot and took from it a fleshy substance, which afterwards grew into a man, the supposed ancestor of the Binds. The myth seems to be of a totemistic character, but other traces of totemism are not forthcoming.” One account in Mirzapur makes Bind, Kewat, Mallâh, Luniya, Paskewata, Kuchbandhiya, and Musahar the descendants of Nikhâd, who was produced by the Rishis from the thigh of Râja Vena. Another Mirzapur legend tells how, in the beginning of all things, Mahâdeva made a lump of earth and endued it with life. The creature thus produced asked Mahâdeva what he should eat. The god pointed to a tank and told him to eat the fish and the wild rice (tinni) which grew near the banks. Since then this is the food of the Binds. They have no traditions of emigration from any other part of the country. The exact position of the Binds is not easily determined. About Mirzapur there are two sub-castes, Kharê and Dhusiya, the latter of whom probably take their name from Jhusi, an old town on the Ganges, in the Allahâbâd District. [120] The Kharê Binds call themselves Kewat, and there seems little doubt that they intermarry with other Kewats. Another story says Binds and Luniyas were formerly all Binds, and that the present Luniyas are descendants of a Bind who consented to dig a grave for a Muhammadan