Part 74

The following account of the process of gold-washing is taken from Mr. Low's Balaghat Gazetteer, p. 201.

This article is compiled from a paper by Mr. Bhagirath Patnaik, Diwan of Rairakhol, and from notes taken by Mr. Hira Lal at Rairakhol.

This article is partly based on an article by Mr. Raghunath Prasad, E.A.C., formerly Deputy Superintendent of Census, with extracts from the late Mr. Nunn's Monograph on the Gold and Silver Industries, and on information furnished by Krishna Rao, Revenue Inspector, Mandla.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Sunar.

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xvii. p. 134.

See articles on Kunbi and Kurmi.

Monograph on the Gold and Silverware of the Central Provinces (Mr. H. Nunn, I.C.S.), 1904. The tola is a rupee's weight, or two-fifths of an ounce.

Journal of Indian Art, July 1909, p. 172.

From a monograph on rural customs in Saugor, by Major W.D. Sutherland, I.M.S.

Lang, Myth, Ritual and Religion, i. p. 98.

2 King Henry IV. Act IV. Sc. 4.

Religion of the Semites, note B., p. 453.

Bombay Gazetteer, Poona, App. D., Ornaments.

Religion of the Semites, Lecture III.

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From a paper on Caste Panchayats, by the Rev. Failbus, C.M.S. Mission, Mandla.

Rajendra Lal Mitra, Indo-Aryans vol. i. p. 231.

Introduction to the History of Religion, 3rd ed. p. 172.

Monograph, loc. cit.

This account is taken from Buchanan's Eastern India, vol. ii. p. 100.

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii. p. 71.

Temple and Fallon's Hindustani Proverbs.

Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat, pp. 199, 200.

Pandian's Indian Village Folk, p. 41.

This article is compiled from a paper by Mr. D. Mitra, pleader, Sambalpur.

Madras Census Report, 1891, p. 301.

This article is based on information: contributed by Nand Kishore, Nazir of the Deputy Commissioner's Office, Damoh; Mr. Tarachand Dube, Municipal Member, Bilaspur; and Mr. Aduram Chaudhri of the Gazetteer Office.

This article is based on papers by Mr. Prem Narayan, Extra Assistant Commissioner, Chanda; Mr. Mir Pacha, Tahsildar, Seoni; Mr. Chintaman Rao, Tahsildar, Chanda; and Mr. K.G. Vaidya, Chanda.