History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c2.3

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1936 THE INDIAN PRESS, LTD. ALLAHABAD of Barani, and the ladies of the royal haram were also subjected to life for their master. The *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* also writes that he was a man of low caste. Hajji describes him in some places as پروار (parwar) and in others as پرواز (parwaz). Badaoni following Barani and the *Tabqat* writes پرواز (parwaz) while Firishta erroneously, it seems, makes it into Parwaz; پرواز (parwaz). Ibn Batutah's statement that Khusrau was originally a Hindu is quite correct. The author of the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* gives Khusrau's early history and writes that it was during the sack of Malwa that he had fallen with his brother into the hands of the Muhammadans. He was included in a special corps of slaves and gradually rose to fame under Qutb-al-Din Mubarak Shah. Only this historian gives us these facts. A little later he adds that there was defect in Khusrau's caste which clearly means that he was a man of low origin. Some texts of Barani have پروار which may be a term of contempt employed to designate a man of admittedly low origin. Baraon means (Steingrass, p. 169) a sweeper of the streets, a dustman. Barani also uses the word Barwar which is probably used for Parwari. Parwari is "an individual of low caste, chiefly employed as village watchmen, gate-keepers, porters, etc. Of the three terms for this people परवारी, भेड़, महर the first is a courteous or conciliating term; the second is a term of reviling; the third is a mere appellative without implication." (Molesworth, "Marathi-English Dictionary," second edition, p. 492). "The Parwaris" are Hindu outcastes, literally the term means "dwellers without walls." "The Parwaris should not by right be called outcastes, seeing that they have caste of their own, obey its rules, and squabble among themselves for precedence with a pertinacity worthy of ambassadors. They are called Atisudras or inferior Sudras, and Antyaja or last born. Any person minutely acquainted with the manners and customs (or customs and absence of manners) of the Parwaris can only consider their exclusion from the town limits as a necessary measure of sanitary police and the abhorrence of personal contact with them as the natural feeling of any man who holds his corporeal frame (as the Hindus do) to be the image of God." Indian Antiquary, 1874, p. 130. The Barbars are mentioned in the Bombay Gazetteer (Vol. I, Part I, p. 173) as a low non-Aryan tribe. The origin of the Barbars is discussed at length in note III (i) on page 174. Buhler writes, (Indian Ant, VI, p. 167) Varvarakas are one of the non-Aryan Tribes which are settled in great numbers in North Gujarat, Koli, Bhil or Mer. Sidhraj's contests with the Barbarkas seem to refer to what Tod describes (West India, pp. 173, 195, as the inroads of mountaineers and foresters on the plains of Gujarat during the 11th and 12th centuries. The name of Barbar is of great age and is spread from India to Morocco. It seems Parwari or Parwar and Barbar signify pretty nearly the same thing. The Barwars of Barani were a low class people in Gujarat were mostly Hindus.