. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE DHUNGAR OR SHEIMIKRD. him in the K(3nkan, with two or three thousand rupees incurrency notes. Heaven knows what he does with his money,for he is always as Mr. van Fiuith here depicts him, seeminglyas poor as Job! He encamps on the outskirts of PoonaCity and never enters it but to sell his grain and to buysome condiments or strong drinks. He is quite harmless—rather a misanthrope withal, and certainly the very last THE INDIAN FIGARO. 205 man to mix himself up with poHtics, or Deccan Sabhamo
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE DHUNGAR OR SHEIMIKRD. him in the K(3nkan, with two or three thousand rupees incurrency notes. Heaven knows what he does with his money,for he is always as Mr. van Fiuith here depicts him, seeminglyas poor as Job! He encamps on the outskirts of PoonaCity and never enters it but to sell his grain and to buysome condiments or strong drinks. He is quite harmless—rather a misanthrope withal, and certainly the very last THE INDIAN FIGARO. 205 man to mix himself up with poHtics, or Deccan Sabhamovements. There are besides, the Dhimgar herdsmen who graze herdsof horned cattle on the mountains and forests, but thesenever come to Poona at all. Reducing the milk to gheeor clarified butter, and storing it in leathern dubbas orjars, they sell it to dealers with whom they are usuallyunder ^fe*-*^^?^ .?L-iiiiWiiiOiii*^! THE NHAWEE—HAJAM—OR BARBER. The Nhawees of the city and the Hajams of the civiland military station are of the same caste, but the latterfrom their association with Europeans are the better have latterly been carrying on a kind of revoltagainst the Brahmins, the precise nature of which I haveforgotten, but it has something to do with their caste 2o6 OUR TROUBLES IN POONA AND THE DECCAN. ceremonies and Brahmin fees, and it is, or was, headedby a very independent Nhawee family in Joonere, nearPoona. They are intelHgent, and. like Figaros all the worldover, garrulous, the purveyors of all the gossip of the coun-tryside. The Nhawees are much belied if they do not,like the barber of Seville, act as go-betweens in many alove intrigue. The Hajams, on the other hand, are ex-tremely proper and often amusing. When one doesnot expressly stipulate that ones hair is to be cut insolemn silence, one will be regaled with something like thefollowing:—Smi
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