The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh

Many of these such as the KinhPuriyas of Partibgarh the Gaurs of Hardoi and their offshoot the Amethiyas of Me Bareli are probably descendants of men or tribes who flourished under the low caste government."' How far this process may have gone on is one of the problems connected with the Rajput Ethnology of the eastern part of the Province. [...] Carnegy was of opinion that the more respectable and influential Rajput clanmen may have fled before the then dominant rulers of the serpent race or of the followers of Buddha; but that the mass of the Chhatris remained and were in fact none other than the Bhars Cheros and the like and that the final overthrow of these degraded races after the fall of Delhi was neither more nor less than the [...] One District note states that Agwan is a disease godling the son of Rfisja Ben and therefore brother to the seven small-pox sisters." With many of the lower castes to the east of the province he seems to be connected with the worship of fire (ogni) in the form of the Aorta The higher class Bhars sacrifice a goat instead of a pig to the Panchonpir. [...] BHARBIltNJA 14 Bhatner in the Bikaner State ; the Jagjadons assert a connection with the radon Rajputs; the Kaithiya with Kayasths as the Bhujetris of the Dakkhin say they are Kiyasths from Upper India;' the Muck is usually treated as a separate caste; the Malheur claim descent from the Rajput tribe of that name ; the Saksena and the Sribistab are said to be derived from the two ancient cites of [...] Among the sub castes locally important we find in Bulandshahr the Sapahar ; in Mathura the Barwar ; in Etawah the Athsaila and Barwa ; in Cawnpur the Lithauri ; in Allahábad the Gangwar ; in Ghazipur the Bandijan ; in Azamgarh the Lakhauriya : in Unao and Sitapur the Kanaujiya.: in Rae Bareli the Amlakhiya : in Faizabad the Athsaila Bandijan"23 I3ll Dakkhinwar and Gangwar ; in Gonda th