LITMIR.BIZ

1

This article is compiled from papers by Mr. Mīr Pādshāh, Tahsīldār of Bilāspur, and Kanhya Lāl, clerk in the Gazetteer office.

2

Bāsi or rice boiled in water the previous day.

3

A measure containing about 2½ lbs. of grain.

4

This article is mainly compiled from papers by the late Mr. Baikunth Nāth Pujāri, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Sambalpur; Sitāram, Head Master of the Raigarh English School, and Kanhyā Lāl, clerk in the Gazetteer office.

5

Now transferred to Bengal.

6

Dalton’s Ethnology of Bengal, p. 322.

7

This article is mainly based on a paper on Aghoris and Aghorpanthis, by Mr. H. W. Barrow, in the Journal Anthr. Soc. Bombay, iii. p. 197.

8

Bhattachārya, Hindu Castes and Sects, p. 392.

9

Aghoris and Aghorpanthis, pp. 224, 226.

10

Page 208.

11

The Tribune (Lahore), November 29, 1898, quoted in Oman’s Mystics, Ascetics and Saints of India, pp. 164, 165.

12

Studies of Indian Life and Sentiment, p. 44.

13

The information about birth customs in this article is from a paper by Mr. Kālika Prasād, Tahsīldār, Rāj-Nandgaon State.

14

Go, gau or gai, an ox or cow, and pāl or pālak, guardian.

15

Ind. Ant. (Jan. 1911), ‘Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population,’ by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar.

16

Elliot, Supplemental Glossary, s.v. Ahīr.

17

Early History of India, 3rd ed. p. 286.

18

Elliot, ibidem.

19

Bombay Monograph on Ahir.

20

Elliot, ibidem.

21

Central Provinces Gazetteer (1871), Introduction.

22

Linguistic Survey of India, vol. ix. part ii. p. 50.

23

Bombay Ethnographic Survey.

24

Quoted in Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Goāla.

25

Rājasthān, ii. p. 639.

26

Gokul was the place where Krishna was brought up, and the Gokulastha Gosains are his special devotees.

27

Behind the Bungalow.

28

Eastern India, ii. p. 467.

29

Buchanan, Eastern India, ii. pp. 924, 943.

30

This article is mainly based on a paper by Mr. W. S. Slaney, E.A.C., Akola.

31

Berār Census Report (1881).

32

Tribes and Castes, art. Arakh.

33

Cajanus indicus.

34

Berār Census Report (1881), p. 157.

35

Based on papers by Mr. Bijai Bahādur Royzāda, Naib-Tahsīldār Hinganghāt, and Munshi Kanhya Lāl of the Gazetteer office.

36

A preparation of raisins and other fruits and rice.

37

The ordinary tola is a rupee weight or two-fifths of an ounce.

38

Jasminum zambac.

39

Michelia champaca.

40

Phyllanthus emblica.

41

Report on the Badhak or Bāgri Dacoits and the Measures adopted by the Government of India for their Suppression, printed in 1849.

42

Sleeman, p. 10.

43

Sleeman, p. 10.

44

Sleeman, p. 57.

45

Sleeman, p. 95.

46

Sleeman, p. 231.

47

Sleeman, p. 217.

48

Sleeman, p. 20.

49

Sleeman, p. 21.

50

Sleeman, p. 81.

51

Sleeman, p. 82.

52

Sleeman, p. 152.

53

Sleeman, p. 127. This passage is from a letter written by a magistrate, Mr. Ramsay.

54

Sleeman, p. 129.

55

Sleeman, p. 112.

56

Sleeman, p. 124.

57

Sleeman, p. 125.

58

Sleeman, p. 147.

59

Sleeman, p. 104.

60

Sleeman, p. 110.

61

Sleeman, p. 131.

62

Sleeman, p. 205.

63

Sleeman, p. 106.

64

Malcolm’s Memoir of Central India, ii. p. 479.

65

Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, art. Bāwaria.

66

Sirsa Settlement Report.

67

It would appear that the Gujarāt Vāghris are a distinct class from the criminal section of the tribe.

68

Bombay Gazetteer, Gujarāt Hindus, p. 514.

69

Art. Bawaria, quoting from North Indian Notes and Queries, i. 51.

70

Bombay

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