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District. | Bhâradwâj. | Kanaujiya. | Râjbhar. | Others. | Total.
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Sahâranpur | ... | ... | 7 | 68 | 75
Muzaffarnagar | ... | ... | 8 | 118 | 126
Morâdâbâd | ... | ... | ... | 15 | 15
Pilibhît | ... | ... | ... | 4 | 4
Allahâbâd | ... | ... | 5 | 11 | 16
Benares | ... | ... | 28,141 | 14,490 | 42,631
Mirzapur | ... | ... | 2,284 | 858 | 3,142
Jaunpur | ... | 38 | 16,048 | 7,732 | 23,818
Ghâzipur | ... | ... | 1,965 | 58,021 | 59,986
Ballia | 86 | 1,258 | 47,608 | 9,908 | 58,860
Gorakhpur | 1,498 | 14 | 19,094 | 53,338 | 73,944
Basti | ... | ... | 15,820 | 6,789 | 22,609
Azamgarh | 2,562 | 990 | 25,094 | 62,711 | 91,357
Lucknow | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 8
Unâo | ... | ... | | 7 | 7
Râê Bareli | ... | ... | | 11 | 11
Hardoi | ... | ... | 4 | | 4
Kheri | ... | ... | 4 | 5 | 9
Faizâbâd | | ... | 20,014 | 6,855 | 26,869
Gonda | | ... | 714 | 9,820 | 10,538
Bahrâich | ... | ... | 2 | 608 | 610
Sultânpur | ... | ... | 1,041 | 2,063 | 3,104
Partâbgarh | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 2
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Total | 4,146 | 2,300 | 1,77,858 | 2,33,441 | 4,17,745
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Bhâradwâj.—(Sanskrit, Bhâradwâja, Bharadwâja, bringing or bearing food;
a skylark.)—A small sept of Râjputs. It is a common appellation for
Brâhmanical and other gotras.
DISTRIBUTION OF THE BHÂRADWÂJ RÂJPUTS
ACCORDING TO THE CENSUS OF 1891.
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District. | Number.
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Sahâranpur | 12
Meerut | 5
Bulandshahr | 10
Agra | 35
Etah | 7
Morâdâbâd | 5
Cawnpur | 2
Bânda | 27
Jâlaun | 11
Lalitpur | 6
Benares | 14
Ghâzipur | 9
Gorakhpur | 1
Basti | 97
Azamgarh | 22
Lucknow | 35
Râê Bareli | 1
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Total | 299
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Bharbhûnja. [28]—(Sanskrit bhrashtra, a frying pan; bhrij, to fry.)—The
caste of grain parchers. They are also known as Bhûj, Bhujua, and
Bhurji. As a purely occupational tribe their sub-divisions are somewhat
confused. At the last Census they were recorded under no less than
three hundred and sixty-four sub-castes for the Hindu and forty for the
Muhammadan branch. These are of the familiar type. Some illustrate some
real or supposed connection with other castes and tribes, such as the
Bhadauriya, Chaubê, Chauhân, Kanjar, Kâyasth, Khatri, Lodhi, Râthaur,
Baddhik, Teliyabans, and the like. Others are local sub-divisions like
Audhbâsi, Bâtham (of Srâvasti), Bhatnâgar, Desi, Gangapâri,
Hamîrpuriya, Kanaujiya, Jaunpuriya, Mathuriya, and so on. The last
Census classifies them under the main heads of Bhatnâgar, Jagjâdon,
Kaithiya, Kându, Râthaur, Saksena, and Sribâstab. Of these, by far the
most numerous are the Kanaujiyas and Saksenas. The Bhatnâgar are said
to derive their name from the old town of Bhatner in the Bikâner State;
the Jagjâdons assert a connection with the Jâdon Râjputs; the Kaithiya
with Kâyasths, as the Bhujâris of the Dakkhin say they are Kâyasths
from Upper India; [29] the Kându is usually treated as a separate
caste; the Râthaur claim descent from the Râjput tribe of that name;
the Saksena and the Sribâstab are said to be derived from the two
ancient cites of Sankisa in the Farrukhâbâd District, and Srâvasti or
Sahet-Mahet in the Gonda District. But this does not exhaust the list
of the sub-divisions. Thus in Agra, they divide themselves into
Saksena, Srivâstâvya or Sribâstab, Kându, Lakhautiya, Dhankûta or paddy
pounders, and Sanksa, who are probably identical with the Saksena. In
Mirzapur they are sometimes called Kându; but the two tribes are said
not to be identical, as the real Kândus do not parch grain at all, and
distinguish themselves from the Bharbhûnjas by calling themselves
Madhesiya Kându, or those of “the middle land.” Here, however,
Bharbhûnjas regard Kândus as a sub-division of their caste, and say
that they have really three main sub-divisions—Kanaujiya, Kându, and
Dhîmar. Kanaujiyas have again two sections, Purbiya or Eastern, and
Pachhiwâha or Western, and to these the true Bharbhûnjas say they
belong. These two sections admittedly intermarry; and it is alleged
that quite recently, or even occasionally, at present, Dhîmars and
Kândus intermarry. But this is more than doubtful. In Bareilly, again,
there are said to be three endogamous sections, Saksena, Kabâriya, and
Kandiya, while in Bânda the caste is known as Kândua, Renrkûta, or
“pounders of the castor-oil seed,” and Tilbhûnja, or “parchers of
sesamum,” and has three endogamous sections—Teliya, Bhunjua, and
Dophansiya, or “two-noose men.” It thus appears that the internal
organisation of the caste is at present in a state of transition, and
that the tendency is to break up into an increasing number of
endogamous sections which will probably in time form a number of
so-called separate castes.
[Marriage customs.] 2. The sections are, as has been said, almost
certainly all endogamous, and they seem generally to practise the
ordinary rule of exogamy which bars the line of the paternal and
maternal uncle and aunt. Widow marriage by the forms known as sagâi,
kâj, or karâo, and the levirate prevail.
[Religion.] 3. To the east of the Province they are usually of the
Vaishnava sect and worship the Pânchon Pîr and Hardiya Deva or Hardaur
Lâla, the cholera godling, whose worshippers at the last Census
amounted to 5,034 persons; and worshippers of these two different
deities are said usually not to intermarry. In Bareilly their tribal
godling is Chanda Kartâl, of whom nothing appears to be known. In Bânda
and Fatehpur they are said to be generally Sâktas and worshippers of
Devi, Mahâdeva, and Mahâbîr. The offerings consist of rice, goats,
spirits, flowers, and money. Devi and Mahâdeva are worshipped on
Mondays, and Mahâbîr on Tuesdays.
[Social customs.] 4. They eat goat’s meat and the flesh of deer and
similar animals, except when they have been regularly initiated or have
taken the vow of a Bhagat. All high castes can eat pakki from their
hands, and Kahârs and Nâis will eat kachchi. They will not eat kachchi
cooked by any caste but their own, and will take pakki cooked by any
Brâhman, Kshatriya, or Vaisya. According to Mr. Hoey [30] there are in
Lucknow “three classes of grain parchers. The poorest are those who
merely parch grain for those who bring it. They receive one paisa per
ser on expensive grain and a quarter paisa per ser on cheap grain. A
stage above these are grain-parchers, who buy grain and store it and
sell parched grain. These are termed Charbanfarosh. Above both of these
is a much more comfortable class who buy rice in the autumn and store
it. They make lâi, chiura, and khîl, which are in daily demand, and
also in special demand at the Diwâli and on occasion of fairs, etc.
There are some Bhurjis especially well-off who have their oven in the
immediate neighbourhood of large grain markets. Merchants who import
grain treat these very liberally, and think nothing of flinging down a
couple of sers of grain and taking in exchange half a ser of parched
grain (chabena).” The work they do, and particularly the heavy part of
it, which consists in sweeping up dry leaves for fuel, tends to lower
them in popular estimation. It is a favourite curse to wish an enemy
that he may some day come to stoke the kiln of a grain-parcher, and a
common proverb is Bharbhûnjâ kî larkî kesar kâ tîkâ—the grain-parcher’s
slut with saffron on her forehead.”