Note 57 — A (continued 2)

Sub-divisions. 2. Mr. Growse calls the Ahiwâsis “a Brâhmanical or rather pseudo-Brâhmanical tribe,” and notes that they have as many as seventy-two sub-divisions, two of the principal of which are called Dighiya and Bajrâwat.57 These gotras are exogamous, and a man cannot marry in the gotra of his mother or grandmother; he may marry two sisters. The only important gotra mentioned in the Census returns is the Bhorak, of Bareilly.