James Skinner writes in his granth Tashrihu 'l Aqwam(1825) that:
They consider halaal meat [of animals slaughtered in the Muslim
manner] as distasteful and forbidden, and eat the jhatka meat.
They do not
tie on their heads red turbans from the dye of safflower. Most of
them put on blue turbans. The wearing of kachchha [short
breeches] is very common in this community.