1 . Rajpoots of the four following tribes :—1 . Jharejah,
2. Jhalla, 3. ©oil, 4. Jetwah.
2. Kattees, of whom there are three femilie#iP*-Walla,
Khacher, and Khooman. They were originally one stock,
but have now respective districts. '
3. Koolies, Khauts and. Sindees, called Bawars.
4. Koombies, Meres, Ahars, Rhebarries, and other industrious
classes.
The Jharejahs, who are the most powerful and numerous
of the Rajput tribes, possessing all the western parts
of the Peninsula, are a branch of the Rao of Kutch, who
le ft their country about 800 a.Ik, and, having j e s s e d the
Runn, established in Kattiwar a sort of feudal system.
The establishment of the Kattees was made thirty or forty
years earlier. They are known by an authentic tradition
to have come driginally from the neighbourhood of the
Indus, having crossed the wildernesS between Kutch and
Guzerat. We thus find that both* of theSo races have ift-
habited this northern country for more than one thousand
years, where they have retained their peculiar manners,
and, like other Hindoos, their distinctness of race. The
Rajpoots and Kattees are warlike tribes, who^dfespiSe
agriculture and leave all laborious" employments to the
Koombies and Ahars and other working castes, while they
preserve for themselves the duty of defending the village
and its inhabitants.
The Rajpoots of Kattiwar are hospitable to strangers,
whom they will defend at the expense of life and property :
they are impatient of insult or injury, but if -unprovoked
seldom offend, and they have a pride of.birth and rank and a
principle of honour thence resulting which preserve them
from all acts of meanness. They are extremely indolent
except when roused by necessity of exertion. As enemies
they are cruel.
In stature the Rajpoots exceed the natives of the Dekhan,
being generally tall, but not of robust make. The complexion
of respectable Rajpoots is generally fair, their faces
long, noses aquiline, eyes large, but devoid of animation,
the general expression Of their faces pleasing.
The Kattees differ in some respects from the Rajpoots;
they are more, cruel in disposition, but far more valiant;
greater energy of character- than the Kattees possess does
not exist. The Kattees are above the middle stature and
bulk, often more than six .feet h ig h .K a t t e e s are sometimes
seen with light hairand blue-coloured eyes.”
Both Rajpoots and Kattees: eat the flesh of goats, sheep,
and wild hogs,, but they ^prefer a dish of .milk and bujerie.
They are much addicted to opium and spirituous liquors.
The women of Kattiwar are generally chaste and virtuous,
excepting those of the higher Rajput families, who are
quite otherwise"; The Kattee women are large and muscular
in their persons, but are reckoned always well-looking, and
are often remarkably handsome. They are domestic in their
habits,, and their marriages are late compared with those of
other Hindoos* ,\fihich in a, great, measure accounts , for the
greater- vigour of the race.../.They1 are;often brides at sixteen
or' spvepteen. years of, age. The men carry off their wives
b y S ^ from their fami%S-\ The Kattees intermarry with
no other caste.^ Theyare Hindpos and worship,the cow and
adore Mahadeo and ofc^er Hindu divinities.
The Kauts, Meres, Ahars, and Rhebarries are. cultivators,
and some qf,,them robbers when occasion allows.
Theser and other parallel-facts,.- which tend to prove that
the. complexion of different races of Hindoo^ hears a
relation to the climates of countries which they inhabit,
can, only? J?§( reconciled,4%'one way- w’th( the-, observations
already oitedfrom Bishop Hq%yj,; according tof,whom, such
phenomena display themselvesvas accidental and individual
varieties, This is on the principle,: that such varieties are
apt to make their appearance in the-stock, just as accidental
varieties so termed spring up^in races oilplants or of domesticated
and sometimes* in? those of wild animals, but that
the developement of individual varieties, is promoted by the
influence of particular {.external .agencies, and takes place
chiefly in .particular climates. Thus the light and sanguine
complexion appears to be the.,character of many, hut not of
all, in the northern and hilly countries of Hindustan, and the
higher castes who are protected from the influence of the