Picture of Famous Kayasths

Compiled by london swaminathan

Date: 13^th    August 2016

Post No. 3055

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In the first part I published Anti Brahmin proverbs and Anti Bania proverbs; here is the second part:-

 
These were recorded 100 years ago in the book:

The People of India by Sir Herbert Risely, London, 1915.

Anti Kayasth Proverbs

1.The Kayasth is a clerical caste.

2.Where three Kayasths are gathered together a thunderbolt is sure to fall.

3.When honest men fall out the Kayasth gets his chance.

4.When a Kayasth takes to money-lending he is a merciless creditor

5.He is a man of figures; he lives by the point of his pen

6.In his house even the cat learns two and a half

7.He is a versatile creature, and where there are no tigers he will become a shikari/hunter

8.Kayasth is no more to be trusted than a crow or a snake without a tail

9.Drinking comes to a Kayasth with his mother’s milk

Anti Jat Proverbs

Jats are cultivators; agricultural caste.

1.You may look for good in a Jat as for weevils/beetles in a stone.

2.He is your friend only so long as have a stick in your hand.

3.If he cannot harm you he will leave a bad smell as he goes by.

4.To be civil to him is like giving treacle to a donkey

5.If he runs amuck it takes God to hold him.

6.A Jat’s laugh would break an ordinary man’s ribs.

7.When he learns manners, he blows his nose with a mat ad there is a great run on the garlic.

8.His baby has a plough-tail for a plaything.

9.The Jat stood on his own corn heap and called out to the king’s elephant-drivers, ‘Hi, what will you take for those little donkeys?

Anti Kunbi /Kurmi Proverbs

Kunbi or Kurmi is an agricultural caste

1.You will as soon grow a creeper on a rock as make him into a true friend

2.He is as crooked as a sickle, but you can beat him straight

3.If he gets a sty (swelling) on his eyelid he is as savage as a bull.

4.He is so obstinate he plants thorns across the path.

5.If it rains in the Hathiya asterism (end of September), and there is a bumper crop, he gives his wife gold rings.

6.You may know her by the basket on her head and the baby on either hip.

I the next part I will give proverbs on Barbers, Goldsmiths, Carpenters, potters and blacksmiths.

To be continued…………………………….

–Subham–