Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c41.s3.175

v3.c41.s3.175

³ [The present order, in numbers, of the castes is—Brāhmans, Jāts, Mīnas, Chamārs, Banias or Mahājans, Gūjars, Rājputs, Mālis. Dhākar Rājputs are found in the Central Ganges-Jumna Duāb, and in Rohilkhand (Elliot, Supplementary Glossary, 263). There are now 89,000 Dhākars in Rājputāna. Kirār is a term generally applied in the Panjāb to traders to distinguish them from the Banias of Hindustān, and the name has no connexion with the Kirāta, a forest tribe of E. India (Rose, Glossary; ii. 552; Russell, Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces, iii. 485 ff.).]