Page "Kurmi" Paragraph 16

In the writings of the occupational theorists, the Kurmis and the Jats came to be extolled for their yeoman-like purposefulness, tirelessness, and thrift, all of which, according to writers such as, Crooke, Ibbetson, and Blunt had been largely abandoned by the landed elite.

Crooke wrote about the Kurmi in 1897: They are about the most industrious and hard-working agricultural tribe in the Province.

The industry of his wife has passed into a proverb