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in country vegetables and fruits are Kunjaras, Kabariyas and Khatiks. These
persons buy vegetables daily in tbe mandis to which they are brought by Mu-
raos, Kachis and others, who are occupied in market gardening. They buy country
fruit in the various seasons in the same way. Greengrocers who deal only in
this limited way are not cases for taxation. There are, however, other dealers in
vegetables and fruits who can fairly be taxed at Rs. 5, or Es. 10. I allude to
those Kunjaras, Bhatiyaras and other castes already named who buy up produce
of fields, sugarcane, potatoes, onions, yams, ghoyan and other vegetables by hut,
store onions, potatoes and other tubers for seed and for sale when the market
is dear. These traders are to be found in Huseinabad and Aminabad. They
often take speculative leases of the produce of groves and gardens and not
unfrequently store tobacco. Local enquiry is the only means of deciding the
ability of such a trader to pay a license tax.
A very large business is done in Lucknow in the sale of foreign fruits.
The largest dealers in these goods are to be found in Sarai Bich between the
Chauk Khass and Naya Sarak. Their business is of two classes (1) They buy
fresh fruit, pomegranates, grapes, apples, pistachios, etc., from Kabulis, and
(2) dry fruit, dates, almonds, walnuts, chuhara and dry fruits generally from
brokers at Saadatganj. They also deal in tea, miscellaneous goods from the
hills, wool, horns and yak tails, mishk, zafaran, and they likewise make up
jellies, chatnis, pickles, preserves, and sharbat. Some dealers of this class pay
Rs. 25 license tax, although owing to the Cabul war the supplies of fruit in.
that quarter are in great measure cut off. All their purchases are made by the
nawabi maund. Their sales by thok are made by the same weight and a profit
is secured merely by an advance in price. Sales by retail are all made by the
lambari maund and also at an advance price. In the latter case the source of
profit is therefore two fold.
The haqq dalla.li is invariably in sales of all classes of fruit, vegetables
and nuts, ' talca fi rupiya.' It is a curious fact that sales of country vegetables
and fruits imported to mandis ta^e place by auction and the Kunjaras' chaudhari
is the auctioneer. He receives an anna per rupee.
Mina-Sas.—Bnameller.—The business of enamelling is not carried on by
sunars only but persons of the mochi caste have of late years begun to practice
this art in Lucknow. The substance used (mina) is imported in a prepared
state and the mina-saz merely cuts or engraves letters, figures, pictures, and
so forth on gold and silver goods supplied by a sunar and lays the mina or
enamel in the furrows which he has cut and places the goods in a bhatta and the
enamel spreads and fixes itself in the required places. When the goods have
cooled the mina-sds cleans off the superfluous enamel with a file (sohan) and
steeps them in khatdi (acid) of tamarind or lemon.
The mina-sdz receives in the case of jewellery, for enamelling lines at least
Re. 1 per tolah weight of gold or silver in the goods sent him, and he receives
as much as Rs. 5 per tolah when the enamelling is of some blaborate design of
in country vegetables and fruits are Kunjaras, Kabariyas and Khatiks. These
persons buy vegetables daily in tbe mandis to which they are brought by Mu-
raos, Kachis and others, who are occupied in market gardening. They buy country
fruit in the various seasons in the same way. Greengrocers who deal only in
this limited way are not cases for taxation. There are, however, other dealers in
vegetables and fruits who can fairly be taxed at Rs. 5, or Es. 10. I allude to
those Kunjaras, Bhatiyaras and other castes already named who buy up produce
of fields, sugarcane, potatoes, onions, yams, ghoyan and other vegetables by hut,
store onions, potatoes and other tubers for seed and for sale when the market
is dear. These traders are to be found in Huseinabad and Aminabad. They
often take speculative leases of the produce of groves and gardens and not
unfrequently store tobacco. Local enquiry is the only means of deciding the
ability of such a trader to pay a license tax.
A very large business is done in Lucknow in the sale of foreign fruits.
The largest dealers in these goods are to be found in Sarai Bich between the
Chauk Khass and Naya Sarak. Their business is of two classes (1) They buy
fresh fruit, pomegranates, grapes, apples, pistachios, etc., from Kabulis, and
(2) dry fruit, dates, almonds, walnuts, chuhara and dry fruits generally from
brokers at Saadatganj. They also deal in tea, miscellaneous goods from the
hills, wool, horns and yak tails, mishk, zafaran, and they likewise make up
jellies, chatnis, pickles, preserves, and sharbat. Some dealers of this class pay
Rs. 25 license tax, although owing to the Cabul war the supplies of fruit in.
that quarter are in great measure cut off. All their purchases are made by the
nawabi maund. Their sales by thok are made by the same weight and a profit
is secured merely by an advance in price. Sales by retail are all made by the
lambari maund and also at an advance price. In the latter case the source of
profit is therefore two fold.
The haqq dalla.li is invariably in sales of all classes of fruit, vegetables
and nuts, ' talca fi rupiya.' It is a curious fact that sales of country vegetables
and fruits imported to mandis ta^e place by auction and the Kunjaras' chaudhari
is the auctioneer. He receives an anna per rupee.
Mina-Sas.—Bnameller.—The business of enamelling is not carried on by
sunars only but persons of the mochi caste have of late years begun to practice
this art in Lucknow. The substance used (mina) is imported in a prepared
state and the mina-saz merely cuts or engraves letters, figures, pictures, and
so forth on gold and silver goods supplied by a sunar and lays the mina or
enamel in the furrows which he has cut and places the goods in a bhatta and the
enamel spreads and fixes itself in the required places. When the goods have
cooled the mina-sds cleans off the superfluous enamel with a file (sohan) and
steeps them in khatdi (acid) of tamarind or lemon.
The mina-sdz receives in the case of jewellery, for enamelling lines at least
Re. 1 per tolah weight of gold or silver in the goods sent him, and he receives
as much as Rs. 5 per tolah when the enamelling is of some blaborate design of