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Districts. | Number.
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Dehra Dûn | 158
Sahâranpur | 5
Muzaffarnagar | 1,119
Meerut | 5,083
Bulandshahr | 2,271
Aligarh | 996
Agra | 1,124
Farrukhâbâd | 399
Mainpuri | 1,159
Etâwah | 277
Etah | 1,315
Bareilly | 4,023
Bijnor | 667
Budâun | 2,755
Morâdâbâd | 2,018
Shâhjahânpur | 1,483
Pilibhît | 1,522
Cawnpur | 1,335
Fatehpur | 709
Bânda | 296
Hamîrpur | 438
Allahâbâd | 1,061
Jhânsi | 279
Jâlaun | 377
Lalitpur | 25
Benares | 1,899
Mirzapur | 4,258
Jaunpur | 3,638
Ghâzipur | 2,891
Ballia | 3,804
Gorakhpur | 7,010
Basti | 2,693
Kumâun | 2,944
Tarâi | 724
Lucknow | 738
Unâo | 2,289
Râê Bareli | 2,521
Sîtapur | 4,414
Hardoi | 1,128
Kheri | 3,631
Faizâbâd | 5,371
Gonda | 11,478
Bahrâich | 3,634
Sultânpur | 2,048
Partâbgarh | 1,307
Bârabanki | 4,006
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Total | 103,320
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Males | 55,347
Females | 47,973
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Dhâkara; Dhâkra.—A sept of Râjputs who have been identified with the
Takoraioi of Ptolemy. [282] To the west of the Province they claim
Sûrajbansi origin; but this is not generally admitted. Some are said to
be emigrants from the banks of the Narbada; but the main body of the
sept in these Provinces say that they came from Ajmer in the beginning
of the sixteenth century and occupied the country now traversed by the
East Indian Railway from Etâwah to Barhan. In Hardoi [283] some say
that they came from Dharwâr; others from Mainpuri, of which place their
ancestor was Râja, and expelled the Thatheras. They were notorious in
the eighteenth century for their lawlessness, and we learn from the
letters of Ezâd Bakhsh [284] that in the neighbourhood of Agra they
gave the Imperial officers much trouble and rendered the communications
between that city and Etâwah insecure. “Their chief stronghold was then
Balampur, in the Chandwâr pargana, whence they issued in bands and
harassed the country far and wide up to the very walls of Agra. Their
lawless conduct brought about its own punishment, for before the close
of the century we find that they had greatly diminished in numbers, and
that their possessions had dwindled down to a few scattered villages.”
They seem to have gained their power by a close alliance with the
Bhadauriyas. In the Mutiny they broke out again and endeavoured to
seize their old fort at Barhan from the Râja of Awa; but they were
defeated by a combined force of Jâdons and Mewâtis. Since then they
have sunk into insignificance; but they are a turbulent, ill-conducted
sept, always ready for petty acts of violence and cattle-stealing.
2. In Unâo the Dhâkara give girls to the Gaur, Panwâr, Chandel,
Gaharwâr, Bâchhal, Janwâr, Nikumbh, Ahban, and Kachhwâha: they take
girls of the Gaur, Chandel, Ahban, Janwâr, Chauhân and Bais, and claim
to belong to the Bhâradvâja gotra. In Aligarh they receive brides from
the Gahlot, Pundîr, Chauhân and Bargûjar septs; and give girls to the
Chauhân, Gahlot, Sakarwâr, Panwâr, and Râthaur.