DO-LUNGI of Jalandhar, a fine double lungi or scarf.
DOM or Hali. In the great belt of forest land intervening between the mountains and the plains, are several tribes. ODC of these, the Dom of the N.W. Provinces, is generally regarded as a remnant of the original stock which the intruding Aryans displaced. The huts of the Dom or Hall are on a low range, and the Dom are hereditary bondsmen to the Rajputs. They are supposed to be the same as the Dorn of the Santal hills, and the Dumi, still a well-defined tribe in sub Himalayan Nepal. Besides the Dom of Garhwal, in the N.W. Provinces, there are wandering and wild tribes, named Bhur, Damak, Kanjar, Kum boh, Nat, Saussi, Gond, the Tharu in the Terai, and the Pasi in Oudh. Iu Oudh the Dom is a sweeper, carries away the dead, is often a musician, and his -wife the Domini, an actress who performs in the private apartments of women. In Kainaon in N.W. India, the Dom is engaged in basket-making and wicker-work. They have dark, almost black skins, and crisp curly hair. The Dom is now dwelling amongst the general popu lation in the north of India, under the Himalaya, and in the Kamaon hills. The Dom were once a considerable tribe, and are still a numerous helot section of the population, being in fact the only inferior class, and ordinary labourer as well as artisans, and, with the Ghasi, in the labour market of Northern India take the place of the Mang, Mbar, Dher, and Pariah of the south of India, and are rope, fan, basket, and mat makers. Tradition
fixes the country of the Dom to the north of the Gogra, touching the Bhur on the east, in the vicinity of the Rohini. Several old forts testify to their former importance, and still retain the names of their founders, as for instance Domdiah and Domungurh. Ramgurh and Suhunkote on the Rohini are also Dom forts. Buchanan con siders that the Dom are the same as the Dom Kutur (Domtikar) ; also that the Dom expelled the Tharu, and were afterwards expelled by the Bhur. There are several Dorn or Domra tribes scattered over the western districts of Oudh, rind in Bundelkhand and Saugor. The Mirasi Dom are Mahomedans descended from Bhat, and are perhaps more generally known by the name of iNiirasi and Puk'hawuj. The name of Mirasi is abbreviated into Mir ; and thus the Mir of the Kala Nuddi, after whom Mirapur is Called, having assumed this distinguished title, are frequently able to conceal the truth of their being really degcended from the Mirasi Soorkh. Domang, a low - caste race in Kanavvar, the same as the Dom of Kainann.—Wi/son ; Latham ; Campbell, pp. 16-125 ; Buchanan, Eastern India ; Elliot ; Dalton, Eth.