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Districts. |Dhâkrê.|Dusâdh.|Kaithiya.|Kathariya.|Kori. |Râwat.|Others.| Total.
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Dehra Dûn | ... | ... | ... | 169 | ... | ... | 45| 214
Sahâranpur | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 50| 50
Muzaffarnagar | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
Meerut | ... | ... | ... | ... |13,758| ... | 11,263| 25,021
Bulandshahr | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1| 1
Aligarh | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 286 | 354| 640
Mathura | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 20| 20
Agra | 216 | ... | ... | 222 | ... | 156 | 1,150| 1,744
Farrukhâbâd | ... | ... | ... | 3,094 | ... | 227 | 12,524| 15,845
Mainpuri | 273 | ... | 28 | 13,946 | ... | ... | 1,293| 15,540
Etâwah | 554 | ... | ... | 8,829 | ... | 423 | 6,897| 16,703
Etah | 99 | 86 | 1,070 | 965 | 113 | 506 | 973| 3,812
Bareilly | ... |1,832 | ... | ... | ... | 372 | 399| 2,603
Bijnor | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5| 5
Shâhjahânpur | ... | 379 | ... | 8,925 | ... |2,503 | 1,140| 12,947
Pilibhît | ... | 180 | 5 | 2,133 | ... |1,925 | 331| 4,574
Cawnpur | ... | ... | ... | 439 | 3 | ... | 19,452| 19,894
Hamîrpur | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1
Allahâbâd | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | 4
Jhânsi | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 5 | 10
Jâlaun | 10 | ... | ... | 45 | ... | ... | 2,439 | 2,494
Lalitpur | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ...
Benares | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 5
Ghâzipur | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1
Ballia | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1
Tarâi | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 92 | 5 | 99
Lucknow | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 788 | 789
Unâo | 296 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5,213 | 5,509
Sîtapur | ... | ... | ... | 467 | ... | ... | 2,235 | 2,702
Hardoi | ... | ... | ... | 8,088 | ... | ... | 3,314 | 11,402
Kheri | ... | ... | ... | 1,121 | ... |1,005 | 1,405 | 3,531
Faizâbâd | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 14 | 15
Bahrâich | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 10 | 10
Sultânpur | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 3
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Total | 1,448 | 2,478 | 1,103 | 48,446 |13,874| 7,504|71,336 | 146,188
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Dhârhi (possibly from Sans. dhrista, “impudent”), a tribe of dancers
and singers of whom there is a Hindu and a Muhammadan branch. They have
been described under one of their many names, Kingariya or Kingriya, in
another place. Another name for them is Pâwariya or Pâwanriya (from the
foot (pânw) carpet (pânwara) they use). In the hills, though socially
ranked with Doms, they do not belong to them, for they properly include
only those Khasiyas who have been put out of caste for some offence or
other and their offspring form a new caste with the special avocation
of singing and dancing.
[Internal structure.] 2. The Census lists show forty sections. Many of
these are local as Audhiya, Balrâmpuri, Chaurasiya, Desi, Gujarâti,
Jaunpuri, Haripuriya, Kanaujiya, Madhesiya, Pachhwâhan, and Sarwariya.
Others connect them with well-known castes or tribes, as Bânsphor,
Boriya, Dhelphor, Dusâdh, Ghosi, Kewat.
[Occupation.] 3. The Dhârhi has two distinct functions. In the first
place he is a musician and singer, and appears at houses on occasions
of festivity, such as a marriage or when a woman is purified after the
birth pollution and rejoins the household. He and the women who
accompany him, who are usually of equivocal reputation, sing and play
the double drum (mridang) or the guitar (tambûra), for which he gets
presents of grain, money or clothes. Secondly, the Hindu Dhârhi keeps
swine and acts in many villages as the priest of the local god
(Gânwdeota, deohâr) cleans and plasters his platform, and takes
anything in the way of an offering which is not consumed by the
worshippers themselves.
[Social rules.] 4. The Dhârhi from his habits of begging and going
about with women of bad character has rather an unsavoury reputation,
and socially ranks very little above the Chamâr. They permit
widow-marriage, divorce and remarriage of divorced women, but if a
woman separate from her husband without cause she must repay through
her second husband any charges which may have been incurred in her
first marriage. Muhammadan Dhârhis have their marriages done, if they
are well-off, by the Qâzi; if they are poor, by the village Dafâli.
The Hindu Dhârhis seldom or never employ a Brâhman except to take the
auspices and fix a lucky day for the wedding. Two common proverbs show
the opinion generally held of the Dhârhi—Dena lena kâm Dom Dhârhiyon
ka, muhabbat dusri chîs hai.—“Taking presents is the way of pimps and
buffoons; true love is quite a different thing.” Randi ki kamâi, ya
khâe Dhârhi, ya khâe gâri. “The prostitute’s earnings go to the pimp or
cabman.”