The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . ll. Some of the craft, hke the carpenters, wear the sacred thread, and arethe highest in grade; others follow in various degrees, and there are besides vagrantor itinerant smiths, who are chandals, or outcasts, nigh akin to gipsies, who workfairly, and make iron buckets for wells, iron measures and weights, and do oddjobs of mending, but are counted very low in the Hindoo social scale, not beingallowed to reside in villages, but pitching their black blanket tents i
The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan . ll. Some of the craft, hke the carpenters, wear the sacred thread, and arethe highest in grade; others follow in various degrees, and there are besides vagrantor itinerant smiths, who are chandals, or outcasts, nigh akin to gipsies, who workfairly, and make iron buckets for wells, iron measures and weights, and do oddjobs of mending, but are counted very low in the Hindoo social scale, not beingallowed to reside in villages, but pitching their black blanket tents in their precincts,and hving there with theh families and donkeys. In the Punjab, blacksmithsrevere the Sildi prophets; but they are in reality Hindoos, and for the most partin India worship Devee. Like the carpenters they have no priests but do not object to animal food, but rarely use it except on special occasions,and in social customs they do not differ from the other artizans ^^dth whom theywork. Blacksmiths who are Hindoos are not found in the North-West of thePunjab. The trade there belongs to
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1860, booksubjectethnolo, bookyear1868
