They were employed grinding millets in hand quirns, hard work, I'd think; the top stone they turn round, weighs two stone and they put it round fairly quickly.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Soil of this description is free of forest growth, and the monsoon rainfall in this part of the province is sufficient to encourage an easy, but very precarious, cultivation of autumn millets and pulses.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
They consist mainly of the cheap pulses and millets.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie