. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE SHIMPEE OR TAILOR. Birmingham. Many of these castes are becoming goodmechanics and engineers in the railway and mill workshops. SHIM PEES OR TAILORS. Time was—not so many years ago—when the Shimpeewas an honoured and influential personage in the City;there are still many of tho old school as depicted above, HAND-MADE CLOTHES AND SHOES. 21- who work themselves, with only male assistants, andfashion the quaint garments that still adorn old-fashionedpeople, but they are being superseded by op
. Our troubles in Poona and the Deccan by Arthur Crawford. With numerous illus. by Horace Van Ruith . THE SHIMPEE OR TAILOR. Birmingham. Many of these castes are becoming goodmechanics and engineers in the railway and mill workshops. SHIM PEES OR TAILORS. Time was—not so many years ago—when the Shimpeewas an honoured and influential personage in the City;there are still many of tho old school as depicted above, HAND-MADE CLOTHES AND SHOES. 21- who work themselves, with only male assistants, andfashion the quaint garments that still adorn old-fashionedpeople, but they are being superseded by operators onSingers and other sewing-machines, which will be heardat work in every street. It is in India, however, as it is inEngland: ask any native which he prefers, which is more. M6OCHEE OR SHOEMAKER. durable, the machine-made garment or the hand-stitched? Theanswer will be the same. There are many Shimpees in Poonawho have amassed wealth and are held in high consideration. MOOCIIEE OR are low castes, of course7from the nature of their occu-pation necessitating the handling of dressed skins. They earngood wage and would be well off but that they drink heavilyand can never be depended on to finish a job. Madrassees andChinamen now compete keenly with them in all large towns. CHAPTER XVII. THE OUT CASTES.—THE HILL OR WILD MIGRATORY OR PREDATORY TRIBES. OUT CASTES.—THE MHARS. Without doubt the Mhars are, as they claim to be,the aboriginal inhabitants of Maharashtra, though Brahmins 53 assert otherwise. It would be difficult even now forthe country to -et on without them. The Mhar—sometimes called the Dhcr, Bhoomia or guide, Yeshkuror watchman, Tural or gatekeeper—is the very first manappealed to, whether it be about a murder or
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