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Title: The people of India : a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Great Britain. India Office Kaye, John William, Sir, 1814-1876 Taylor, Meadows, 1808-1876 Watson, J. Forbes (John Forbes), 1827-1892
Subjects: Ethnology — India India — Social life and customs
Publisher: London : India museum
Contributing Library: Robarts – University of Toronto
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MUZBEE SIKHS.LOW CASTE.LAHORE.<237i SANSEES, OE SANSEEAS. (238) THE Sanseeas are a nomadic tribe, found chiefly in Lahore, the Manjha, andSealkote. They Hve by hunting and thieving; but an attempt has beenmade, with some hope of success, to induce them to settle down to agiiculturalpursuits. They have a j^eculiar language and rehgion, and do not mix, or marry,with any other of the wandering tribes of India. As Dacoits they have had norivals; and, though strangers to the locahties, and unable to speak its dialects, theyhave yet penetrated to the Deccan, and can-ied on their daring exploits there, witha boldness and certainty unknown to other classes of Dacoits in India. They werefully described in No. 195 of VoL IV., to which article the reader is referred forfurther infonnation.
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SANS EES. WANDERING TR IBE. LAHORE. (238) MULLAPIS, OR BOATMEN. (239) THE Mullahs form a special tribe of themselves, and, although Mahomedans,do not intermarry with other Mussulmans, except on rare occasions. Theyare found on all the rivers of the Punjab, and on the Indus do^^^l to the sea; and,though they have been converted, are probably httle changed since the days ofAlexander the Great. They are a laborious, fi-ee-living people, eating fish andmeat ordinarily, and by no means averse to an occasional dram, though they arenot habitual consumers of spirits. They arc Soonnee Mahomedans, necessarilyvery ignorant, but peaceable and well disposed. As their calling gives them onlyordinary subsistence, none of them attain any high social rank; but the ownershipof a boat or two ensures respectable competence. Some of them are employed onthe river steamers, and make good pilots, watching the changes in the sand banksafter every fl.ood. In ascending the rivers, and when the wind is contrary,
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