. A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West frontier province. of Khairpur Bast, where they are carpentersand khatiks by trade, though in Multdn they are well-to-do landowners. Numerous Jat and other tribes comprise Chauhdn sections or havesections which claim Chauhdn descent, indeed it would be difficult toname a large caste in the Punjab which has not a Chauhdn section, Chamdr. The Kichi and Varaich are also numerous Chauhanclans in the Punjab. For the general history of the Chauhans andtheir organisation see Rajput. CsaULA, Chdwala: lit. a preparation
. A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North-West frontier province. of Khairpur Bast, where they are carpentersand khatiks by trade, though in Multdn they are well-to-do landowners. Numerous Jat and other tribes comprise Chauhdn sections or havesections which claim Chauhdn descent, indeed it would be difficult toname a large caste in the Punjab which has not a Chauhdn section, Chamdr. The Kichi and Varaich are also numerous Chauhanclans in the Punjab. For the general history of the Chauhans andtheir organisation see Rajput. CsaULA, Chdwala: lit. a preparation of rice : a section of the Aroras. * Nlmrana is a small state, a feudatory of Alwar, and ruled .by a Chauhan family. t Eliot mentions four tracts as held by the Alanot Chauhans, viz., Riith. Bighota,Dhnndhod and Chandwar. Of these, Rath, the lars&sfc, lies mostly in Alwar. bat itincludes Narnaul, now in Patiala territory, Bfghota lies north of Rath, and Dhundhotibetween Bighota and Hariaca. J Punjab Customary Law, XIV, p. 2. r^ ? Pc. /f^//-^ .^-^^ = -^? ^ U\. J C ^ C ^XJ. ^ y ,^,^^j^ z / ^ . ^ r .z: ^•^ A^.^zT?, ^ MISCELLANEA. CHEYLA. Lhis would appear to be the form under wbiclithis wcll-kuown word iisiially appeared to theAnglo-Indian of a century ago. It was then incommon use in senses which are not to be foundin Yules Hohson-Jobson, nor curiously enough inany of the Indian Dictionaries available to a Hindu word meaning a servant,many changes have been rung upon it in Hindulife, so that it has meant a slave, a household slave,a family retainer, an adopted member of a greatfamily, a dependant relative and a soldier in itssecular senses; a follower, a pvipil, a disciple and aconvert in its ecclesiastical senses. It has passedout of Hindu usage into Muluimmadan usage withmuch the same meanings and ideas attached to it,and has even meant a convert from Hinduism toIslam. In the last century, persons bearing the title —it can hardly be called the stigma — of c
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