Note 5 — D.

Dalera.5—A tribe of basket-makers, day-labourers, and thieves found in Bareilly and the Tarâi. The name is derived from the Hindi daliya, “a basket.” A common half humourous derivation is from diler, “venturesome.” According to the tribal tradition a Bargûjar Thâkur once violated a Kahâr woman and was excommunicated. His descendants are the present Daleras. They are supposed to be closely allied both to Khâgis and Mallâhs. Their head-quarters in Bareilly are at the village of Ginganwa, in Tahsîl Aonla. They are also found at Munjkhera, in the Bulandshahr District. They have no distinct traditions regarding their place of origin, except that they came from somewhere in the South about a hundred years ago. The Bareilly story is that they were driven from Meerut and Bulandshahr by a famine.