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*" It was a mixture of grains, consisting ordinarily of bajari, bhavtu, kodri, jawar and mat. These we got ground up into flour. It made a sort of bread which is known as S&ngru and which we liked very much. With it we would take some s§g (vegetables) or ML This was our regular midday meal.
* Including the value of the food we begged, the cost of living was just about two annas a day for each of ,us. "We could live comfortably upon this.
^ The poorer Dhers in the villages seldom or never get kheechhree (rice and dal). They could not afford it. * Most of them live on " ghens " (a mixture of buttermilk and coarse flour cooked into a sort of skilly, or gruel) and bhavtu or bajari bread, or " S&ngru. " 'The buttermilk is given to them by the village landowners, in return for their labour. They are expected for instance to do odd jobs, cut grass, carry wood, &o. The grain they commonly get either in.harvest time in return for labour, or buy it as they require it several maunds at a time. Occasionally they get it in exchange for cloth. Living in the cheapest possible way, and eating the coarsest food, I don't think they could manage on less than one annas* worth of food a day."
w One of our European Officers, Staff Captain Hunter, who in the same style for about four years among the G-oojarat, and who has been in charge of some 30 or 40 of our Officers, confirms the above particulars. He .says that on two annas a day it is possible to live comfortably, but that one anna is the minimum below whioh it is impossible to go in order to support life even sorts ef food. f