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Ibidem.

Ibidem. p. 98.

Merinda citrifolia, see art. Alia.

See article.

This article is based principally on a Monograph on the Banjara Clan, by Mr. N. F. Cumberlege of the Berar Police, believed to have been first written in 1869 and reprinted in 1882; notes on the Banjaras written by Colonel Mackenzie and printed in the Berar Census Report (1881) and the Pioneer newspaper (communicated by Mrs. Horsburgh); Major Gunthorpe's Criminal Tribes; papers by Mr. M. E. Khare, Extra-Assistant Commissioner, Chanda; Mr. Narayan Rao, Tahr., Betul; Mr. Mukund Rao, Manager, Pachmarhi Estate; and information on the caste collected in Yeotmal and Nimar.

Mr. Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Banjara, para. 1.

Berar Census Report (1881), p. 150.

Ibidem, para. 2, quoting Dowson's Elliot, v. 100.

Khan Bahadur Fazalullah Lutfullah Faridi in the Bombay Gazetteer (Muhammadans of Gujarat, p. 86) quoting from General Briggs (Transactions Bombay Literary Society, vol. i. 183) says that "as carriers of grain for Muhammadan armies the Banjaras have figured in history from the days of Muhammad Tughlak (A.D. 1340) to those of Aurangzeb."

Sir H. M. Elliot's Supplemental Glossary.

Monograph on the Banjara Clan, p. 8.

Hindus of Gujarat, p. 214 et seq.

Rajasthan, i. 602.

Ibidem, ii. 570, 573.

This custom does not necessarily indicate a special connection between the Banjaras and Charans, as it is common to several castes in Rajputana; but it indicates that the Banjaras came from Rajputana. Banjara men also frequently wear the hair long, down to the neck, which is another custom of Rajputana.

Jungle Life in India, p. 517.

Berar Census Report (1881), p. 152.

Bombay Gazetteer, Hindus of Gujarat.

Letter on the Marathas (1798), p. 67, India Office Tracts.

Army of the Indian Mughals, p. 192.

Monograph, p. 14, and Berar Census Report (1881) (Kitts), p. 151.

These are held to have been descendants of the Bhika Rathor referred to by Colonel Mackenzie above.

See note 3, p. 168.

General Briggs quoted by Mr. Faridi in Bombay Gazetteer, Muhammadans of Gujarat, p. 86.

A. Wellesley (1800), quoted in Mr. Crooke's edition of Hobson-Jobson, art. Brinjarry.

Cumberlege, loc. cit.

Cumberlege, pp. 28, 29.

Elliot's Races, quoted by Mr. Crooke, ibidem.