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

United Provinces Census Report (1901), p. 220.

Atkinson, Himalayan Gazetteer, ii. p. 473, quoted in Mr. Crooke's article Dhusar.

Sherring, Hindu Castes, i. p. 293.

This account is based on a paper furnished by Mr. Jeorakhan Lal, Deputy Inspector of Schools, Bilaspur.

Kashyap was a Brahman saint, but the name is perhaps derived from Kachhap, a tortoise.

This article is mainly based on a paper by Mr. Pancham Lal, Naib-Tahsildar Sihora.

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

Tribes and Castes, art. Golahre.

The above notice is partly based on a paper by Mr. Sant Prasad, schoolmaster, Nandgaon.

Tribes and Castes, art. Kasaundhan.

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

Hindu Castes and Sects, p. 209.

See article Bairagi for some notice of the sect.

See separate article on Jangam.

Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat, p. 70.

A town near Jhalor in Marwar, now called Bhinmal.

Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat, p. 97.

Rajasthan, ii. p. 210, footnote.

Hindus of Gujarat, loc. cit., and Bombay Gazetteer, xvi. 45.

Tribes and Castes, art. Oswal.

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xvii. p. 51.

Ibidem.

Bhattacharya, Hindu Castes and Sects, p. 207.

This article is based on papers by Mr. Pancham Lal, Naib-Tahsildar Sihora, and Munshi Kanhya Lal, of the Gazetteer office.

See also notice of Benaikias in article on Vidur.

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xvii. p. 81.

Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat, p. 99.

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