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| Sub-castes. |
District. +~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+ Total.
| Jethwant. | Kasipgotra. | Others. |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~
Mathura | | | 24 | 24
Hamîrpur | | | 1 | 1
Allahâbâd | | | 25 | 25
Benares | | | 12,499 | 12,499
Mirzapur | | | 10,807 | 10,807
Ghâzipur | 2,242 | 53 | 30,178 | 32,473
Ballia | 5,910 | 30 | 465 | 6,405
Gorakhpur | 10,317 | 957 | 2,767 | 14,041
Basti | | | 552 | 552
Azamgarh | | | 8 | 8
Lucknow | | | 13 | 13
Faizâbâd | | | 1 | 1
Sultânpur | | | 137 | 137
+~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~~+~~~~~~~~~
Total | 18,469 | 1,040 | 57,477 | 76,986
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Bisâti—(Bisât “goods spread out for sale”; Sanskrit, visrita
“extended”).—A small pedlar, hawker, or huckster, who sells petty goods
of European manufacture, such as needles and pins, tape, buttons,
stationery, hardware, etc. They are a purely occupational caste, and
nearly all Muhammadans. According to the Census Returns they have a
curious list of sectional names—Banjâra, Mughal, Râjput, and Shaikh.
The Bisâti sells much the same class of goods as the Boxwâla (“the man
of the box”), who hawks small ware at European houses.