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g.—Religious Devotees. 
No. 61. Akalee. 
The Akalees form one of the five great divisions 
of religious mendicants among the Sikhs; though 
they can hardly be considered mendicants in a 
strictly religious sense, being rather fanatical sol- 
diers who have beeome a dass, than devotees like 
the Oodassees, Nanuk Shahees, and others, who 
affect a strictly religious life accompanied by severe 
ascetie penances. As represented in the photograph, 
the Akalee is always armed to the teeth. His high 
conical turban, like the rest of his dress of a blue 
colour, is encircled by rings of sharp Steel quoits, in 
the use of which he is very skilful. The rest of his 
arms are a sword and sliield, a Steel bow of the 
ancient Parthian pattern, with a braee of horse 
pistols, or a eollection of daggers in his waisthand. 
ln this equipment the Akalee is a truly grim and 
formidable looking person; and in most of the 
fraternity there is a peculiar wildness of expression, 
partly owing to fanatical spirit, and partly to the 
habitual use of intoxicating drugs. In the former 
Sikh army Akalees were a prominent feature. 'They 
submitted to no discipline, but joined together in 
bodies, and often performed reekless feats of valour. 
At present it is only in native States, at Hyderabad 
in the Deccan, for instanoe, where the Akalees in all 
their pristine fierceness and defiance of Order are to 
he met with; and their wild figures when in Com 
pany with bands of their own countrymen who serve 
as soldiers, are always very remarkable. 
No. 62. Tun Sookh Doss. 
Tun Sookh Doss is a Bairagi or Hindoo religious 
mendicant. He is a resident of Fyzabad in Oude, 
and has been dragged fromthence to the Mela-Magh 
Fair at Allahabad. 
Bairagis (Hindoo) and Fakirs (Mahomedan) re 
ligious mendicants, abound in the vicinity of Fyza 
bad, where some eleemosynary institutions, generally 
managed by some one or more of the Order, are 
maintained by the wealthier landowners for their 
support. One large establishment near the city of 
Awadh has a revenue of more than 50,000 rupees. 
It was instituted by Shooja-ood-dowla, himself a 
Mussulman, for the exclusive use and behoof of 
Hindoo religious mendicants (bairagis). No Mussul 
man is allowed to enter its walls, and the revenues 
are absorbed hy about 500 resident and itinerant 
bairagis, who under the authority of their malik or 
abbot, manage the estates themselves, taking a 
moderate rent, which is never augmented. 
No. 63. Bairagee. 
The subject of the present photograph is a Jat. 
He has left wife and children under an irresistible 
religious zeal, and, forswearing the World, has beeome 
a Bairagee. The hroad trident of Vishnu is painted 
on his forehead, the sides white, with red hetween, 
and he worships Krishna, as an incarnation of 
Vishnu. On his head is a tinsel Crown, worn over 
a skull cap, instead of a turhan; and on a bamboo 
pole, covered with red cotton cloth, upon his shoul- 
ders, decked with gay peacoek’s feathers and wild 
flowers, are slung two baskets covered with red or 
orange cotton cloth, which contain pots of Ganges 
water. He may have filled these at the great festi- 
val of Hurdwar, and is most likely on his way to 
Dwarka, in Goojerat, where he has made a vow to 
pour the contents over the holy image of Krishna 
worshipped there. 
No. 64. Bairagees. 
In this group the foreheads of the Bairagees are 
marked with the hroad trident of Vishnu, red in the 
centre, and white on eaeh side. The sitting figure 
has covered himself with wood ashes only; the old 
man standing has marked himself with his usual 
caste marks about the body, and wears a coarse 
black blanket thrown over his left shoulder. 
No. 65. Mohunts of Hunooman-gurhee. 
Hunooman is the name of the monkey which» 
according to the legend of the Ramayan, is said to 
have headed the army of King Rani, of Ajoodbia, 
when he invaded Ceylon in remote times. A temple 
was afterwards erected for the worship of Hunooman 
at Ajoodhia, which became renowned for its mag- 
nificence and the number of its votaries. 
Some two _ thousand years ago, Raja Bikrama 
Dutt of Oojeyn, added to the temple, and be- 
stowed a small idol upon it. A well is said to he 
all that exists of the ancient edifice. It is not 
known who were the original priests of the temple ; 
but the present occupants came from Jeypoor two 
or three Centimes ago, and and toolc possession of it 
when Mahomedan intolerance had almost reduced 
it to ruin, and they finished the present building, 
which is on a lofty mound, and resembles a castle, 
with a long flight of steps ascending to the entrance. 
They also made the present idol, which is in the 
form of a monkey, and is decorated with costly 
jeweis. 
There are four or five hundred Bairagees, or reli 
gious mendicants, attached to the temple, who take 
it by turns to go begging all over India; and twice 
a year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims come 
from remote distances to make offerings to the 
shrine; the income of the temple from these sources 
is believed to be very considerable. The Mohunts 
are the chief authorities, or as they may he termed 
abbots of this great Bairagee monastery. 
h.— Bareilly Munigtpal Committee. 
No. 66. 
No. 1. Sheikh Khyrooddeen Ahmud Buhadoor 
Deputy Magistrate, Deputy Collector, and Secre- 
tary to the Municipal Committee,—'This gentleman 
is distinguished for his loyalty to our Government. 
He was educated at the Bareilly College. 
No. 2. Lalla Luchminarain.—A Khutri. For- 
merly an inhabitant of Delhi, and now the head of 
a large hanking firm at Bareilly. He was educated 
at the Bareilly College, and speaks and writes 
English. 
No. 3. Nawab Neamut Khan.—Is descended from 
Hafiz Rehmut Khan, the former ruler of Rohilcund.