The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . s praise, and recounting the miracles attributedto him. Some of these itmerant fakirs are very dissolute, but others of goodcharacter establish themselves in solitary huts on great highways, which are resting-places for wayfarers; or near villages, taking charge of Mahomedan cemeteiies,and performing simple ceremonies for the dead. In some instances such personshave risen to local sanctity, and their tombs are visited by devotees, who peiformceremonies on the anniv
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . s praise, and recounting the miracles attributedto him. Some of these itmerant fakirs are very dissolute, but others of goodcharacter establish themselves in solitary huts on great highways, which are resting-places for wayfarers; or near villages, taking charge of Mahomedan cemeteiies,and performing simple ceremonies for the dead. In some instances such personshave risen to local sanctity, and their tombs are visited by devotees, who peiformceremonies on the anniversary of the saints death. The dresses of the three persons represented in the Photograph aie as follows:the man to the left wears a chintz tmban of white, red, and yellow, with a darkred shawl; the one in the middle, a white muslin turban, shawl of green andorange check, and a lower garment of white and blue check; the one to the right,a silk turban, and sha^vl of wliite, red, and yellow, and trousers of white and greencheck. All three are five feet nine inches in height, and have pale brownishcomplexions, with hazel CHISHTEES. MAHOMEDANS OF ARAB ORIGIN, GOOuAlRA. M O O L T A N . (274) BUKIYANAS. (275) SEVERAL instances of Rajpoots converted to Mahomedanism at an earlyperiod have already been illustrated, and the Bukiyanas are another of suchtribes. They were origmally Choulaan Rajpoots, members of one of the highest ofRajpoot clans; but having emigrated from Rajpootana into the Punjab, undertheir chief Bukka, they were \\ith him converted to ]\Iahomedanisni about 300years ago, and settled in the Googaira district, on lands allotted to them, whichthey still hold and cultivate. They are herdsmen and farmers only—a fine,stalwart tribe, but not nmnerous, and given eutnely to peaceful and industriouspursuits. They do not intermaiTy \^dth other IMussulman tribes, and preservemany traditions of their ancestral faith. They are therefore exclusive, and inknowledge of the Soo
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