Note 53 — C

Chaupata Khamb.—A Râjput sept found in small numbers in the Benares division. According to Mr. Sherring53 in the city of Benares they are chiefly engaged in the manufacture of fine wire used in the frames on which cloth of various description is woven. They trace their descent to two Sarwariya Brâhman brothers, Baldeo and Kuldeo, who settled at Pathkhauli, in the Jaunpur district. Râja Jay Chand is said to have given his daughter in marriage to Baldeo, on which Kuldeo, to mark his anger, erected a pillar (khamb), and the descendants of Baldeo are hence called chaupata or “ruined.”