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BHORAHS.

    Bhorahs have settled in Bombay in great numbers where they keep shops of all kinds; and there is hardly a cantonment in Western India where they do not sell European Manufactures.  Many of them earn their livelihoods by carrying about boxes filled with every conceivable article of general use, from muslins and linens for English ladies, to hardware, saddlery and the like.  Their characters are well known in Bombay as well as in its out-stations.  Bhorahs not infrequently speak English fluently, but they use it only colloquially.  Their ordinary languages are Guzerattee and Hindoostanee, though some of them speak Persian and Arabic.  For their written language and accounts they use Guzerattee only.  Bhorahs marry exclusively in their own sects, and their women are most jealously guarded.  Their marriage ceremonies are simple, and strictly according to Mussulman law.