The present number of converts is about 1,000 persons.

Being principally descendants of Brahmans, they hold a fair social position; but some of them are extremely poor.

About one-fourth are carpenters, one- tenth blacksmiths, one-tenth servants, the remainder carters.

The Chuhari Mission was founded in 1770 by three Catholic priests, who had been expelled from Nepal [after the Gorkha conquest in 1768].
There are now 283 converts, mostly descendants of Nepalis.

They are all agriculturists, and very poor (Article 'Champaran District' in _Statistical Account of Bengal_, 1877).
The statement in _I.G._ 1908, s.v.Bettiah, differs slightly, as follows: 'A Roman Catholic Mission was established about 1740 by Father Joseph Mary, an Italian missionary of the Capuchin Order, who was passing near Bettiah on his way to Nepal, when he was summoned by Raja Dhruva Shah to attend his daughter, who was dangerously ill.