Part 57

Melia indica.

Author of the Nimar Settlement Report.

Sesamum.

Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies, p. 21.

Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits, p. 310.

Colonel Mackenzie's notes.

Mr. W. F. Sinclair, C.S., in Ind. Ant. iii. p. 184 (1874).

Notes on Criminal Tribes frequenting Bombay, Berar and the Central Provinces (Bombay, 1882).

Berar Census Report (1881), p. 151.

This notice is compiled principally from a good paper by Mr. M. C. Chatterji, retired Extra Assistant Commissioner, Jubbulpore, and from papers by Professor Sada Shiva Jai Ram, M.A., Government College, Jubbulpore, and Mr. Bhaskar Baji Rao Deshmukh, Deputy Inspector of Schools, Nagpur.

Sherring, Hindu Tribes and Castes, i. p. 330. Nesfield, Brief View, p. 15. N.W.P. Census Report (1891), p 317.

The name of a superior revenue office; under the Marathas, now borne as a courtesy title by certain families.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Agarwal.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Barui.

Blochmann, Ain-i-Akbari, i. p. 72, quoted in Crooke's Tribes and Castes, art. Tamboli.

Rajasthan, ii. p. 210.

Ficus glomerata.

Hindu Castes, i. p. 316.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Bari.

Vishnu.

Sherring, Tribes and Castes, i. pp. 403, 404.

This article is compiled from papers by Mr. W. N. Maw, Deputy Commissioner, Damoh, and Murlidhar, Munsiff of Khurai in Saugor.

Bombay Gazetteer, xvii. p. 108.

About 100 lbs.

Compiled from papers by Mr. Ram Lal, B. A., Deputy Inspector of Schools, Saugor; Mr. Vishnu Gangadhar Gadgil, Tahsildar, Narsinghpur; Mr. Devi Dayal, Tahsildar, Hatta; Mr. Kanhya Lal, B. A., Deputy Inspector of Schools, Betul; Mr. Keshava Rao, Headmaster, Middle School, Seoni; and Bapu Gulab Singh, Superintendent, Land Records, Betul.

Chapter x. 37, and Shudra Kamlakar, p. 284.

A Vaideha was the child of a Vaishya father and a Brahman mother.

Based on a paper by Rao Sahib Dhonduji, retired Inspector of Police, Akola, and information collected by Mr. Aduram Chaudhri of the Gazetteer office.