Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-12-14

CIR AIl IS I'm INDIA
WHOLE TRIBES WHOSE HEREDITARY
PROFESSION is THEFT.
Robbers BORN and Kept So w Caste.
They Are Polite and Modest Until
the "Professtonn Requires Them to
Become Cruel and Ferocious. N.
y India Is usually spoken OF as q land
where life and property have become
safe under British rule True, the
bands of thugs have hssn broken ap,
the Plndharse hordes have been sup.
pressed and he BRITISH police system
Is spread over the whsae country, but
the criminal tribes or castles, those
whose hereditary profession is rob-
berry and nothing else, remain, their
instincts strong, wanting only opportu-
nifty to practice their traditional call
ing, which the Indian caste system for
bids them to abandon. IS
These tribes are most numerous and
most wayward In the united provinces,
In which are Cawnpur and Lucknow,
the cities associated forever with the
Indian mutiny. % ...- @
Half Of the division is Oudh, the ma
tive province last annexed by Britain,
many Of whose old men wildly re-
member when every "talookdar, z or
feudal chief, lived In fortified castle
and retained q swarm OF armed men,
who received no pay, but lived on the
country. They were official robbers.
and their example gave free scope to
the prof robbers, or, as they
have always been known In India, the
criminal tribes. ~. %
Barwars, the Sansiahs, the Doms, the
Haburahs, the Aheriahs, the Banriahs,
the Bhatus. Each tribe has Its own.
dialect, dress and customs. t
( A singular feature Of Indian life iss
that persons who would be considered,
depraxed characters In q European
country and would bear the stamp Of
their nature on their faces are not de-
PRAYED ID their own estimation or IN
that OF the people at large. "a casual
murderer - not ashamed OF himself
nor abhorred By his neighbors, who
welcome him back among them II he
escapes the gallows ana is released
after term Id jail. The universal be-
lief that all things are decreed by fate
accounts for this amazing state of
feeling. Much more, then, are men re-
garded with Indifference or even re-
spect whose time honored, hereditary
and natural profession is robbery with
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3 So the members BE these tribes 70 III
and out of the towns ana villages With
out nlisgivings, and there III not q SIGN
In their faces or manner to indicate
that their business s. robbery and MUIR
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When gang encamps outside Of
town the Inhabitants feel uncornforta-
BILE and take precautions hat cherish
no III Win against the strangers. And
when robberfes and murders occur al
most imHaediately within radius Of
twenty miles they take more precau-
lions, but regard the whole affair. as d !
visitation of Providence, Hike d decd or
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These habitual criminals are net de-
PRAYED In any sense understood I'm the
people. They simply have The mis-
fortune to belong to a trade which Is
unpleasant for The nesghbo like
q dyers or tanners. ss55ss s ie sTi
They are well satisfied Filth .4hem-
selves and are as careful as other peo-
pie Of their respectful lity. They have
no unusual vices: they do not get drunk
or riotous; they are eiyil, courteous
and unassuming. Cruelty and ferocity
are with them neither habits nor pleas
ures, but simply methods Of business.
During the excitement pf q sudden
attack the people &c they do not run
away will turn out and aid the police
In repeliing or capturing the robbers.
But if q police Inquiry begins two or:
three days after the robbers have done
their work unmolested the people will
usually do nothing to help In tracing
them and win even deny that they
have lost any thing. 5ls3 s mn
For many years past the government
Of India has worked to induce these
criminal tribes to settle down to
peaceable and Industrious life. IS
But progress Ii very slow. Yagabond-