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Cajanus indicus.

Phaseolus mungo.

Phaseolus radiatus.

Bombax malabaricum.

Acacia arabica.

Cassia tora.

Punjab Census Report (1881), p. 340.

Schleichera trijuga.

Hindus of Gujarat, App., art. Vaghri, footnote.

Religion of the Semites.

Mackintosh, Report on the Manbhaos..

See articles on Khairwar and Kewat.

Colonel Ward's Mandia Settlement Report p. 29.

Brief View of the Caste System, p. 14.

Symplocos racemosa.

Raja Lachman Singh's Bulandshahr Memo, p. 182, quoted in Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Lodha.

Narsinghpur Settlement Report (1866), p. 28.

Nagpur Settlement Report, p. 24.

A small millet.

Every twelfth year when the planet Jupiter is in conjunction with the constellation Sinh (Leo).

Butea Frondosa.

This is known as lodha.

The Rajjhars are a low caste of farmservants and labourers, probably an offshoot of the Bhar tribe.

Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P. and Oudh, art. Lohar.

Dowson, Classical Dictionary, s.v.

In Uriya the term, Ghantrabela means a person who has illicit intercourse with another. The Ghantra Lohars are thus probably of bastard origin, like the groups known as half-castes and others which are frequently found.

Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 624. (Ibbetson.)

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Lohar

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