Part 63

Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Sarwaria.

Occult Review, October 1909.

Orpheus, p. 99, and Bombay Gazetteer, Parsis of Gujarat; p. 220.

Hanuman is worshipped on this day in order to counteract the evil influence of the planet Saturn, whose day it really is.

Pots in which wheat-stalks are sown and tended for nine days, corresponding to the Gardens of Adonis.

Religion of the Semites p. 324.

Golden Bough, 2nd ed. vol. i. p. 203.

In 1911 the Naodas numbered 700 persons in the Central Provinces. About 1000 were returned in Central India in 1891, but in 1901 they were amalgamated with the Mallahs or Kewats. This article is based on a paper by Mr. P.R. Kaipitia, Forest Ranger.

This article is partly compiled from notes furnished by Mr. Aduram Chaudhri and Mr. Jagannath Prasad, Naib-Tahsildars.

See art. Kanjar.

Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 588.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Beria.

Asiatic Researches, vol. vii., 1803, by Captain Richardson.

Tribes and Castes, art. Nat.

Crooke, l.c., art. Nat.

Ibidem.

Ibbetson, Punjab Census Report (1886), para. 588.

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xx. p. 186, quoted in Mr. Crooke's article.

Temple and Fallon's Hindustani Proverbs, p. 171.

As. Res. vol. xvi., 1828, p. 213.

Melia indica.

Bengali Festivals and Holidays, by the Rev. Bihari Lal De, Calcutta Review, vol. v. pp. 59, 60.

Based on papers by Munshi Kanhya Lal of the Gazetteer Office, and Mr. Mir Patcha, Tahsildar, Bilaspur.

Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Lunia.

Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Lunia.

Papers relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of the C.P., p. 6.

Note by Mr. Tawney as Deputy Commissioner of Chhindwara, quoted in Central Provinces Census Report of 1881 (Mr. Drysdale).

Sir C.A. Elliott's Hoshangabad Settlement Report, p. 70.