Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s2.t2.9

c6.s2.t2.9

Among the classes which did not actively participate in internal and foreign trade, but depended upon it for their living we may mention the class of carriers of goods and the class of brokers. The Banjaras, whom we have mentioned earlier, carried on the business of conveying agricultural and other produce from one part of the country to another on a very extensive scale. Their migratory habits, their large stock of bullocks and bullock-carts and wagons and pack horses, and their intimate knowledge of the roads of the country specially fitted them for their task.¹ The Bhats of Rajputana took up the guiding of caravans on the road on the dangerous and insecure countryside of Gujarat and Rajputana.²