ABSTRACT
Of the sixteen denominations of the Kanaujiyá subdivision of Bráhmans the most common in Dacca are Dúbe, Tiwárí, and Súkul. These Bráhmans are employed as dafa’dárs, constables, and barkandázs; but in former days they held important posts under the Nawábs, and their descendants still proudly wear the ‘Sarmáí’, or cold weather embroidered cap, of the Muhammadan aristocracy. A Dúbe, named Natú Singh, was názir of the Provincial Court of Appeal last century, and to him Dacca owes the erection of the two hideous towers, called ‘Názir-ke-maths’, on the spot where the bodies of his father and mother were burned.
