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See also article Jadum for a separate account of the local caste in the Central Provinces.

Early History of India, 3rd edition, p. 434.

Based on the accounts of Sir H. Risley and Colonel Dalton and a paper by Pandit G.L. Pathak, Superintendent, Korea State.

B. G. Poona, Part I., p. 409.

An Account of the Origin and Present Condition of the Tribe of Ramosis (Bombay, 1833; India Office Tracts. Also published in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science.)

This paragraph is mainly compiled from the Nasik and Poona volumes of the Bombay Gazetteer.

Ficus glomerata.

Eugenia jambolana.

Calotropis gigantea.

Bauhinia racemosa.

Poona Gazetteer, part i. p. 425.

Tribes and Castes, art. Rangrez.

Peasant Life in Bihar, p. 101, footnote.

Temple and Fallon's Hindustani Proverbs.

Based on Sir H. Risley's account of the tribe in the Tribes and Castes of Bengal, and on notes taken by Mr. Hira Lal at Raigarh.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, vol. ii. App. I.

Saccharum spontaneum.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Rautia.

This article is based principally on an account of the Sanaurhias written by Mr. C.M. Seagrim, Inspector-General of Police, Indore, and included in Mr. Kennedy's Criminal Classes of Bombay (1908).

Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Sanaurhia.

Criminal Classes of Bombay Presidency, pp. 296, 297.

Sleeman's Reports on the Badhaks, p. 327.

Mr. Gayer's Lectures on some Criminal Tribes.

Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits (1849), p. 328.

J. Hutton, A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits and Gang-robbers of India (London, 1857).

This article is based almost entirely on a description of the Sansias contained in Colonel Sleeman's Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits (1849). Most of the material belongs to a report drawn up at Nagpur by Mr. C. Ramsay, Assistant Resident, in 1845.

Sleeman's Report on the Badhaks, p. 253.

Ibidem, p. 254.

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