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

In the same way on the tenth day food is distributed in the name of the dead and the clansmen are fed on the twentieth day and again on the fortieth while money cloth and the articles used by the deceased are given to a Maulavi in the hope that the spirit will enjoy them in the land of the dead.' On the Shab-i-barat every year bread meat and the halwa sweemeat are offered in the name of [...] "The only Hindu descendants of the Yaduvansi at the present day are the Jadons of the small state of Karauli to the west of the Chambal and at Sabalgarh or Jadonvati in the Gwalior territory east of that river ; but the Musalmans of acknowledged Mon descent form a very large portion of the population of Eastern Rajputgna from Sohna and Alwar on the west to the Chambal on the east and from the ba [...] The woship of Siddheswara is performed in the same way as the worship of the Guru at the first initiation and the same mantra is whipered again into the ear of the lad after which he prostrates himself three times before the Guru. [...] One settled on the high land east of the Rimganga and from him are descended the Bhar Janghiras ; of the other two who were by a second marriage one was the ancestor of the Mail Jangharas now found in Bareilly and Shahjahanpur and the other of the Budaun clan. [...] The popular native account of the matter is simple enough ; the Jilts in common with many of the other tribes arc according to the common opinion of the country side ROjputs who have fallen in the social scale by infringing the rules forbidding the marriage of widows enforcing the seclusion of women and the like.