The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . The Aroras make pilgrimages toMuttra, and other shrines sacred to Krishna ; but of all, that of Muttra is esteemedthe most sacred, as it was his birthplace. Among the many somewhat obscuredivisions of the mercantile Vaishyas, the Aroras hold an unobtrusive andrespectable position, and many of them are reputed to be Avealthy. The subjectof the Photograph is a shroff, or money dealer. He is simply clad in a whitemuslin dress and turban, with a scarf of the same hangi
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . The Aroras make pilgrimages toMuttra, and other shrines sacred to Krishna ; but of all, that of Muttra is esteemedthe most sacred, as it was his birthplace. Among the many somewhat obscuredivisions of the mercantile Vaishyas, the Aroras hold an unobtrusive andrespectable position, and many of them are reputed to be Avealthy. The subjectof the Photograph is a shroff, or money dealer. He is simply clad in a whitemuslin dress and turban, with a scarf of the same hanging over his shoulders, anda string of prayer beads about his neck, on which he repeats the names andattributes of the deity he worships. He is seated on a small wooden platform, on . ARORA. which is spread one of the striped cotton carpets of the country, called shutringees,and has a small heap of rupees before him, which constitute his stock-in-trade forthe day. His features are of an unquestionably Aryan type, and are graveand sedate, but with perhaps a hard and somewhat avaricious expression—theresult of his AROR A. HINDOO TRADESMAN. LAHORE. (231) CHANGARS. (232) THE tribe to which the group depicted in the Photograph belongs, has anunenviable character for thieving and general dishonesty, and forms one ofthe large class of unsettled wanderers, which, ii:iadmissible to Hindooism, andunconverted to the Mahomedan faith, live on in a miserable condition of life asoutcasts from the more civilized communities. Changars are, in general, pettythieves and pickpockets, and have no settled vocation. They object to continuouslabour, but contrive to support themselves as watchmen, when they are foundtnistworthy, or by any light work; the women make baskets, beg, pilfer, or sift andgrind corn. They have no settled places of residence, and live in small blanket ormat tents, or temporary sheds outside villages, where their habits do not affect orpollute the people at large.
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