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BUNNEA.

pretence. They were the origin of the Sontal war; their exactions from that simple people having driven them into rebellion. "Jiska Bunnea yar, oosko dooshmun kya durkar;" whoever has a friend in a Bunnea, what need has he of an enemy; is a pithy Hindoostani proverb, which explains itself. "Too Bunnea ho;" you are a Bunnea; is a bitter term of abuse; but the class is patient, and apparently yielding, and, in its way, long suffering; and being by reputation, and in fact, arrant cowards, they resort to the coward's only protection - submission - until opportunity comes for retaliation. In native states they were often plundered, by exactions, and are still; they are deemed fair game. In our own territory some of them have become millionaires, and the wealth of India, as a class, is with them. They rejoice in the contrast; and are one at least, of the classes of India, who gratefully acknowledge the protection they receive.