'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎18] (151/458)

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LIEUTENANT H. G. RAVERTY
87, who are mostly Kashmirians, with some few Peshawurees, they have
no regular shops, but frequent the Baths and Bazars; 24 Master Car
penters, are Peshawurees, and have no separate place of residence;
Cook shops 15, chiefly Peshawurees, who reside in different Streets and
Bazars ; Cookers of Sheep’s Heads 11, Peshawurees, and reside in diffe
rent parts of the city ; Confectioners 56, who are Hindus, and reside in
different Streets ; Carvers and Painters 18, Peshawurees, scattered about
in different streets ; Drapers 52 shops, they are kept by Hindus, almost
exclusively reside in the 66 Bazar-i-Bazaran” or Drapers’ Bazar ; Dyers
76, all Peshawurees, who reside in different streets ; Druggists 57,
Hindus, are to be found in every Bazar ; Fishmongers 15, Peshawurees,
residence Bazar-i-Kalan ; Goldsmiths 41, are all either Hindus or
Kashmirians, and are to be found in every Bazar ; General Dealers and
Deealers in small wares 16, who have a row to themselves in the Bazar-i-
Kalan and Bazar-i-Gorkutree ; Horseshoe makers and shoers of Horses
16, are Peshawurees, and reside in the Gunj-i-Noh and Bazar-i-Jehan-
gheerpurah ; Mat-weavers 11, Peshawurees, whose residence is in the
Chouk ; Milk sellers 37, Hindus and Peshawurees, and are to be found
in every street; 25 Oil merchants, who are Peshawurees, and dwell in
the Mahalah-i-Gorkhutree ; 11 Plumbers, who are of seven different
classes, and are scattered about the different Bazars ; Sellers of Philudah
10 (this is a sort of porridge made from wheat and milk,) Pesha-
wurees, who dwell in the Bazar-i-Kissah Khoane and Bazar-i-Kalan ;
Paper makers 22 , are Peshawurees and Kashmirians, and reside
in the Gunj-i-Khona and a street named after them called the
Mahalah-i-Kazir Kalan ; Bope makers 11, Peshawurees, four of whom
are in the Bazar-i-Kissah Khoane and the remainder live in diffe
rent streets ; Shoemakers 58, are all natives of Peshawur, of
whom 23 are makers of women’s shoes only—they principally
reside in the Rastah-i-Kafshdor or Shoe-makers’ Row ; Saddlers 15,
Peshawurees, residence in the Bazar-i-Bazaran; Snuff-sellers 45, Kash
mirians and Peshawurees, who mostly dwell in the Gunj-i-Kohnah;
Sugar-refiners 3, Peshawurees, who live in the Bazar-i-Kalan; Smiths
27, who are Peshawurees, and reside in every street and Bazar ; 12
Sherbet sellers, Peshawurees, scattered in all parts of the city ; Tailors
10, who are Peshawurees and Kashmirians and have no particular place
of residence—such a small number of this class appears strange, but
the reason is that the women make their own clothes and also the
clothes for their husbands and families, therefore Tailors are not much