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Are there any Arains (Arians) in India?
Or are they a purely Muslim/Pakistani caste.
Are Arian Maliar Caste
Hi
I have found in the literature that Arain are Mali/Maliar (Gardeners). There is the reference that Arain were involved in Market Gardening and not a landowning tribe with managerial responsibility for people who worked on the lands they owned. The quotation from Rudyard Kiplings book is as follows:-
Behind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. He was a market-gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables and flowers for Umballa city, and well Kim knew the breed.
'Such an one,' said the lama, disregarding the dogs, 'is impolite to strangers, intemperate of speech and uncharitable. Be warned by his demeanour, my disciple.'
'Ho, shameless beggars!' shouted the farmer. 'Begone! Get hence!'
'We go,' the lama returned, with quiet dignity. 'We go from these unblessed fields.'
'Ah,' said Kim, sucking in his breath. 'If the next crops fail, thou canst only blame thine own tongue.'
The man shuffled uneasily in his slippers. 'The land is full of beggars,' he began, half apologetically.
'And by what sign didst thou know that we would beg from thee, O Mali?' said Kim tartly, using the name that a market-gardener least likes. 'All we sought was to look at that river beyond the field there.'