The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . \. B E LOCH. M A H O IVl E D A N AGRICULTURIST, GOOGA IRA. M O O L T A N . (268) KHAEAL. (269) KHARALS are Maliomedan graziers and cultivators, avIio are settled on thebanks of the Ravee, m the Googamx district. They have no very distincttradition as to the origin of the tribe, but they are said to be descended from aRajpoot stock which emigrated from Rajpootana, and became, hke the precedingBukiyanas, converts to Mahomedanism about the same time, probably 300 year
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . \. B E LOCH. M A H O IVl E D A N AGRICULTURIST, GOOGA IRA. M O O L T A N . (268) KHAEAL. (269) KHARALS are Maliomedan graziers and cultivators, avIio are settled on thebanks of the Ravee, m the Googamx district. They have no very distincttradition as to the origin of the tribe, but they are said to be descended from aRajpoot stock which emigrated from Rajpootana, and became, hke the precedingBukiyanas, converts to Mahomedanism about the same time, probably 300 yearsago. Those who are graziers and camel breeders subsist chiefly on the produce oftheir flocks and herds, and are inveterate cattle stealers. They are all, however, apeaceably disposed and industrious people, and many of the agi-iculturists are goodfarmers. They do not evince any martial spirit, and do not serve as profess the ISoonnee fjiith, but are for the most part extremely ignorant;and though observant of the ordinary ceremonies and social customs of their sect,are esteemed as rather of a lower grade of Mahom
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