Volume 2 / Part 2 — Cutchi
Reading edition
1. General notice.
2. Origin of the caste.
3. Social customs.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Vol. ix. part. ii. Muhammadans of Gujarāt, p. 57.Note 2 · Rājasthān, ii. p. 292.Note 3 · Bombay Gazetteer, l.c.Note 4 · In recording this point Mr. Farīdi gives the following note: “In 1847 a case occurred which shows how firmly the Memans cling to their origiNote 5 · Cutchi or Meman, Kachhi, Muamin.—A class of Muhammadan merchants who come every year from Gujarāt and Cutch to trade in the towns of the CenNote 6 · According to Mr. Farīdi, from whose description the remainder of this article is mainly taken, the Memans or more correctly Muamins or ‘BeliNote 7 · The present Pīr or head of the community is Sayyid Jāfir Shāh, who is nineteenth in descent from Yūsufuddīn and lives partly in Bombay and pNote 8 · Cutchis and Memans retain some non-Muhammadan usages. The principal of these is that they do not allow their daughters and widows to inherit