During the year 1871, an enumeration of the whole of the Rajput population in Oudh was made by native police officers in every village where even a single Rajput family lived. There were found 439 clans or divisions of clans, some of the divisions having, only one or two living members. The clans and divisions were distributed over 13,066 villages, containing a total Rajput population of 559,699 ; and of this number 250,819 were males, and 181,623 females, above 10 years ; and 84,200 male, and 60,027 female, children under 10 years. Of all the districts of the province, Roy Bareilly was supposed to be the one in which infanticide prevailed to the greatest extent. In 1075 villages, 10,643 boys under 10 years were living, and only 6619 girls. Roy Bareilly had 71,000 Rajputs in 1075 villages ; ITnao, 65,000 in 927 ; and Faiz abad, 63,000 in 1565. The jurisdiction of Juggut pore, Roy Bareilly district, with a. total Rajput population of 7836 distributed over 145 villages, only had 11 per cent. of female children under 10 ; there were 3386 males, and 2844 females above 10 years ; 1386 boys under 10, and only 238 girls. Here it was that infanticide was considered to be most comtnon. But the 1881 C,ensna Report inclines to the belief that the children born are large!, of the male sex, and this is probable.
Itajputs had high notions of honour, and treated women with great respect. But in their haughty pride, the vices of female infanticide and sati rose to the highest pitch in Rajputaria, and girls were destroyed even after attaining adolescence.
Major WMurdo, writing in 1818, mentions that among,st the otTspring of 8000 Rajputs, probably not more than thirty. feinales were alive.
In 1810, the rajas of Jodhpur and Jeypore became rival suitors for a princess of Udaipur, and supported their pretensions by waging war against each other, and the family of the unhappy girl at length terminated the contest by putting her to death.
A prince of Bundi had married a Rajputni of the Malani tribc,—a name now unknown ; but a Bard repeating the gotra acharya,' it was dis covered to have been about eight centuries before a ramification (sak'ha) of the Chauhan, to which the Hara of Bundi belonged ; divorce and expia tory rites, with great unhappiness, were the con sequences.
Their great desires are to marry their daughters into a clan of it higher rank, and to avoid mis alliancea. The court of Ranjit Singh furnished a most striking proof of the tenacity with which the Kutoch of Kanera asserts and maintains this superiority. Dheian Singh, the brother of the 'Maharaja Ghulab Singh, while the prime minister of Ranjit, sought an alliance for his son, Ileem Singh, with one of the daughters of the raja of Kangra, but the proud Kutoch deserted his hereditary kingdom rather than, as he thought, degrade his house by intermarriage even with a Mian, or prince of the Jummoo stock. Many chiefs of the clans are said to have wished their daughters married into the Rewa family, and sums up t,o five lakhs of rupees have been given as a daughter's dot.—E/ph. Hist. of India; Jour. of the Royal As. Soc.