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PANJAB CASTES <br/>

SIR DENZIL CHARLES JELF IBBETSON, K.C. S.I. <br/>

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The Races, Castes and Tribes of <br/>
the People in the Report on the <br/>
Census of the Panjab published <br/>
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Ibbetson, KCSI <br/>

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1916. <br/>
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==The Dhunsar (Caste No. 173)==

The head-quarter.s of the Dhunsar
are at Rewari in Gurg-aon. The total number in the Panjab is under 1,000^
and all but three are Hindus. They take their name from Dhosi^ a flat
topped hill near Narnaul where their ancestor Chimand performed his
devotions. They are of Braliminical origin, as is admitted by the Brahmans
themselves, and it is possible that some of t hem may have recorded themselves
as Brahmans in the schedules. Indeed, I find 1,G08 Dhusar Brahmans
returned, of whom 1,560 are in Gurdaspur ; but whether these are the same
men as the Dhunsars of Rewari I cannot say. The detailed tables when
ready will clear up this point. In any case, they are no longer Brahmans,
any more than are the agricultural Tagas ; and like the latter they employ
Brahmans to minister to them. They are almost exclusively clerks or
merchants, though, like the Khatris, some of them have risen to eminence in
the army and the Court. The great Hemu, the leader of the Indian army at
the second battle of Panipat, as a Dhunsar of Rewari. Sherring states
that the Dhunsars have a traditioji of origin in the neighbourhood of Benares
before migmting to Dehli, that they excel as minstrels, and are exceedingly
strict Hindus of the Vashnaiva sect. They seem to be numerous in the North
West Provinces.

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