Part 66

See Jerdon's Mammals of India, p, 97. The account there given is quoted in the Chhindwara District Gazetteer, pp. 16-17.

Private Life of an Eastern King, p. 75.

Private Life of an Eastern King, pp. 69, 71.

Private Life of an Eastern King, pp. 39-40.

Bombay Ethnographic Survey, ibidem.

This article is based on papers by Mr. Panda Baijnath and other officers of the Bastar State.

By Dr. Cornish.

Linguistic Survey; vol. ix, p. 554; vol. ii. part ii. pp. 434 ff.

In the article on Gond it is suggested that the Gonds and Khonds were originally one tribe, and the fact that the Parjas have affinities with both of them appears to support this view.

Eugenia jambolana.

Hareli, lit. 'the season of greenness.'

Nawakhani, lit. 'the new eating.'

Folklore as a Historical Science (G.L. Gomme), pp. 191, 192.

Based principally on Mr. Crooke's article on the caste in his Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.

Quoted in Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Bhar.

Art. Pasi, para. 3.

Art. Bhar, para. 4.

A pulse of a black colour (Phaseolus radiatus).

These sentences are taken from Dr. Grierson's Peasant Life in Behar, p. 79.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Pasi.

The following passage is taken from Mr. Crooke's article on Pasi, and includes quotations from the Sitapur and Hardoi Settlement Reports.

Lectures on Criminal Tribes of the Central Provinces.

The word Rakshabandhan is said to mean literally, 'the bond of protection.' Another suggested derivation, 'binding the devil,' is perhaps incorrect.

The historical account of the Pindaris is compiled from Malcolm's Memoir of Central India, Grant-Duff's History of the Marathas, and Prinsep's Transactions in India (1825). Some notes on the modern Pindaris have been furnished by Mr. Hira Lal, and Mr. Waman Rustom Mandloi, Naib-Tahsildar, Harda.

Memoir of Central India, i, p. 433.

Indian Antiquary, 1900.

Transactions in India, 1813-23, by H.T. Prinsep.

Maratha and Pindari Campaigns.