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KHUTREE.

accommodate themselves to their Mahomedan lords, the Khutrees are timid, wary, acute, and penurious. As they acquire competency they retire to more congenial localities, and their places are supplied by others. The Khutrees are everywhere fond of bright and gay clothes. The subject of the present Photograph was dressed in white, with a chogha, or sleeved cloak of scarlet, with gold embroidery, and a small white turban. In India, Khutrees seem most particular about their turbans, which are usually folded in a very precise manner on a block, and are of the most delicate shades of pink, rose, colour, or yellow, the usual pattern followed being the court fold of the empire. In the Punjab, Khutrees wear beards; but in India, except the mustache, they are close shaven.