Panjab Castes

(BEING A REPRINT OF THE CHAPTER ON THE RACES CASTES AND TRIBES THE PEOPLE' IN THE REPORT ON THE PANJAB CENSUS OF 1881.) (The bracketed figures in the margin refer to the pages of the original editor those without brackets to the pages of this reprint.) PART I.—CASTE IN THE PANJAB. [...] The old division into Brahman Kshatriya Vaisya Sidra and the Mlechchha or outcast who is below the Sidra is but a division into the priest the warrior the husbandman the artisan and the menial ; and the more modern development which substituted trader for husbandman as the meaning of Vaisya or the people did not alter the nature of the classification. [...] There is the true caste in the Brahminical sense of the term the Brahman Rajpit Banya and so forth ; the tribe or race based upon common blood such as the Pathan Biloch Kathie.; there is the colony of foreigners like the Ptirhi and Kashmiri or of believers in a strange creed like the Bishnoi; there is the true occupational caste such as the Nii the Chantal. [...] On the Indus we have the Saiyad and the Pir the class of mama or divines who take the place of the Brahman ; the Pathan or Biloch as the case may be who correspond with the Kshatriya ; the so-called Jat who is emphatically the people " or Vaisya in the old sense of the word and includes all the great mass of husbandmen of whatever caste they may be Awans Jats najprits and the like who can [...] These divisions are generally known by geographical designations such as the Gaur Brahmans of the indent Gaur and the Sirsdt BrAhmans of the Saraswati and the Panjab the Uttaradhi Aroras of the north and the Dakhani Aroras of the south theCASTE IN THE PANJAB.