Blunt, Edward : The caste system of northern India: with special reference to the united provinces of Agra and Oudh (London, 1931)

APPENDIX I

List of Caste Names found in the text

Abbasi

Abidi

Adham

Adham Sudra

Adhela

Afghan

Afridi

Agari or Agri
Agariya

Agarwal

Agastwar

Agnikida

Agrahri

Agri

Ahar

A heriya

Ahir

Ahiwasi

Ajudhyabasi

Alwi or Alawiya

Amethiya

Amisht

Ansari

Arakh

Asandhari

Askari

A thpahariya

Atith

Audhiya

Auji

Section, both of Saiyids and Shaikhs

Saiyid section

Ahir subdivision

Ahir subcaste

Kanjar subcaste

Synonym for Pathan

Pathan tribe

Iron smelters; a section of hill-Doms

(1) Caste of iron smelters in Mirzapur;

(2) Caste of salt-workers in Buland-
shahr

Vaisya caste of traders and bankers
Rajput sept

Lit. ‘fire-born’; name of a group of Raj-
put septs

Vaisya caste of traders, mostly provi-
sion dealers
See Agari

Pastoral and cultivating caste
Caste of hunters and fowlers
Caste of herdsmen; also agriculturists
Brahmanical caste

‘Living in Ajudhya’; a subcaste name
in various castes

Section, both of Saiyids and Shaikhs
Rajput sept

Subcaste name in various castes
Shaikh section

Caste of cultivators and labourers

Branch of the Goshain sectarian caste

Saiyid section

Gidhiya subcaste

Sectarian (Saiva) caste

Tribe of criminals

Tailors and drummers; section of hi 11 -
Doms

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