The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . risoners, now in confinement forlife in the Lahore jail, where they have been taught useful trades, and are moreunder surveillance than in actual confinement. These, and all other Thugprisoners, have been professional murderers and robbers, and have deserved thejDunishment of death, but it has been a condition of the commutation of theirsentences, that any escape would involve prosecution on the original charges, orexecution of the original sentence ; and hence few
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . risoners, now in confinement forlife in the Lahore jail, where they have been taught useful trades, and are moreunder surveillance than in actual confinement. These, and all other Thugprisoners, have been professional murderers and robbers, and have deserved thejDunishment of death, but it has been a condition of the commutation of theirsentences, that any escape would involve prosecution on the original charges, orexecution of the original sentence ; and hence few escapes, or relapses into crime,are ever experienced. The Muzbee Sikhs, in general, are a powerful athletic bodyof men, having no trammels of caste, eating animal food habitually, and drinkingfi-eely of ardent spirits. Polygamy is not much practised among them, and theirwomen work as hard as their husbands. They have no particular costume orlanguage, both being what is cuiTcnt in their country: the men wear a simpletunic, turban, and loose baggy drawers; the women the petticoat, bodice, andscarf, chiefly of coarse MUZBEE ;237i SANSEES, OE SANSEEAS. (238) THE Sanseeas are a nomadic tribe, found chiefly in Lahore, the Manjha, andSealkote. They Hve by hunting and thieving; but an attempt has beenmade, with some hope of success, to induce them to settle down to agiiculturalpursuits. They have a j^eculiar language and rehgion, and do not mix, or marry,with any other of the wandering tribes of India. As Dacoits they have had norivals; and, though strangers to the locahties, and unable to speak its dialects, theyhave yet penetrated to the Deccan, and can-ied on their daring exploits there, witha boldness and certainty unknown to other classes of Dacoits in India. They werefully described in No. 195 of VoL IV., to which article the reader is referred forfurther infonnation.
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