Part 52

This article is based largely on a monograph by the Rev. J. Lampard, missionary, Baihar, and also on papers by Muhammad Hanif Siddiqi, forest ranger, Bilaspur, and Mr. Muhammad Ali Haqqani, B.A., Tahsildar, Dindori. Some extracts have been made from Colonel Ward's Mandla Settlement Report (1869), and from Colonel Bloomfield's Notes on the Baigas.

In Bengal the Bhumia or Bhumij are an important tribe.

Colonel Ward's Mandla Settlement Report (1868-69), p. 153.

Shorea robusta.

Jarrett's Ain-i-Akbari, vol. ii. p. 196.

Colonel Ward gives the bride's house as among the Gonds. But inquiry in Mandla shows that if this custom formerly existed it has been abandoned.

Forsyth's Highlands of Central India, p. 377.

The Great God. The Gonds also worship Bura Deo, resident in a saj tree.

Opened in 1905.

Mandla Settlement Report (1868-69), p. 153.

Notes on the Baigas, p. 4.

Mr. Lampard's monograph.

Farthings.

This article contains material from Sir E. Maclagan's Punjab Census Report (1891), and Dr. J. N. Bhattacharya's Hindu Castes and Sects (Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta).

Dictionary, s.v.

Sir E. Maclagan's Punjab Census Report (1891), p. 122.

Memoir of Mathura.

Hindu Castes and Sects, p. 449.

Lit. the birth on the eighth day, as Krishna was born on the 8th of dark Bhadon.

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

Hindu Castes and Sects, p. 457.

From laskkar, an army.

This paragraph is taken from Professor Wilson's Account of Hindu Sects in the Asiatic Researches.

This article is based on papers by Mr. Habib Ullah, Pleader, Burhanpur, Mr. W. Bagley, Subdivisional Officer, and Munsh Kanhya Lal, of the Gazetteer office.

This legend is probably a vague reminiscence of the historical fact that a Malwa army was misled by a Gond guide in the Nimar forests and cut up by the local Muhammadan ruler. The well-known Raja Man of Jodhpur was, it is believed, never in Nimar.

The ghat or river-bank for the disposal of corpses.

Madras Census Report (1891), p. 277.

Ibidem (1891), p. 226.