From the Gulcheter down to Delili, awl in the country about Heidi, there are Brahman villages, quite industrious and Intelligent, the women working as well as the men ; but Brahmans do net form a largo proportion of the agricultural ',nisi lation. They were kind to and protected fugitartas during the mutiny. Some of the Ices pure agri• cultural Bralunans of these parts are called Tuga or Gaur Tuga. All the Debli country is occupied by Gaur Brahmans. South of Dehli, m the Jaipur country, Brahmans aro numerous ; and in the Saharunpur districts there aro a good many Brahmans following secular pursuits, besides the priests of Hurdwar.
About Benares and the greater part of Behar are a numerous class of Brahmans called Batman or Bhaban, or, according to Sir II. Elliot, 13hoon har, to which the raja of Benares and all the great landholders of Behar belong.
Brahmans are many in the Banda district, and numerous in Baghelcund or Rewah, and there they condescend to very menial vocations, and groomed most of the horses on the Jubbulpur road. In the proper Brahman country, some of them affect the Rajput prejudice against actually holding the plough, though performing every other agricultural labour, and take the names of Dobi, Tewari, and Chauhi, i.e. men with a know ledge 'of two; three, and four Vedas, and are con sidered t4 be of very high caste. Between tho Ganges and the Gogra, as we recede from the Ganges, the population becomes more Rajput than Brahman, but there are many Brahmans about Ajodiah, the old Oudh. Beyond the Gogra is a numerous Brahman population, humble, not soldiers. Thence to the north of the Gogra and Ganges, all the way to Tirliut, there are many 13rahmans. South of the Gogra. and thence across the Ganges into the Arrah district (Bojpur), runs the Rajput dominions.
The Tuga Gaur Brahmans seem to be identical with the Bhuinhar, and the Bengali Tagores (properly Thakur) may be an offshoot from them. Like the Bhuinhar, the regular Brahmans repu diate all connection with them ; and Mr. Beanies even says there seems no reason for supposing them to be anything but low Aryans.
Bezigal.—ThoBrahumns of Bengal are numerous. They claim for themselves a northern origin, but they differ much from the Hindustan Brahmans in language, dress, and habits. They are fairer and larger than tho mass of the Bengali popula tion, and some are fine-looking men in size and feature. They are largely employed as clerks and accountants, in learned professions, merchants and bankers, sharing the scriptory work with Kayastha They are acute and intellectually capable, but not energetic. In Bengal about nine per cent. of the Ilindu prisoners in jails are Brah mans. They will not put their hands to the plough,
are aristocratic, but altogether unwarlike and effe minate, and in mercantile business are not equal to the Marwari. They are not numerous in Eastern Bengal. There are many in Orissa and in the Urya portion of the Ganjarn district. Many of the Urya Brahmans are cultivators and traders, and are stated to be also brickmakers and bricklayers.
In Gujerat, the Brahmans are numerous, and are employed in public offices and in trade.
In the Peninsula, the Brahmans are numerous from Damaun to Goa, and from Bombay to Nagpur and the Wain Ganga, that is, all through the Mahratta country. They principally trace their got or clan from Kasyapa, the first Rishi. There are two classes intermixing here,—the 'Kon kani Brahman and the Mahratta Brahman. Mahratta Brahmans are a highly intellectual race, and have been distinguished as accountants and clerks. Some of them, as Peshwas, put aside the descendants of Sivaji,ruled over the greater part of India, and took the command of Mahratta armies. The Mahratta or Deshasth Brahmans are dark, swarthy men, much shorter than the Konkani Brahman, often squat, with large, coarse features, large lips, and becoming in advancing life un wieldy. The men are not good-looking, and the women are decidedly plain. The men are largely engaged in public offices as accountants and clerks. They are stolid men, inactive, and of sedentary habits, with literary tastes, and may be justly proud of their poets.
The Konkani or Konkanistha Brahmans belong to that small strip of land lying between the Syhadri mountains and the Indian Ocean. They are all fair men, not large, but with lithe and agile frames, and decidedly of Aryan descent. They are good-looking, though in this respect inferior to the Afghan and Rajput races ; and their women are fair and have pleasing counten ances, with good figures, but even by their own relations are not considered to be equal to other of the women of India, amongst whom the fair Jewesses of Western India may be quoted. The race were agricultural until the British became supreme. The men are ready to move abroad in search of employment, and are met with amongst the Mahratta nation, throughout Berar, and are largely employed in the various public offices as accountants, clerks, in the educational department, and in mercantile houses. They are not military nor agricultural, nor do they engage in trade. The Konkan Brahman has a pleasant expression, is easily moved to laughter, much enjoys a joke, and is of an active turn of mind. They are easily distinguishable by the peculiarly large turbans which they wear.