Part 58

Mr. Marten's C. P. Census Report (1911), p. 212.

This article is based on papers by Mr. A. K. Smith, C.S., Mr. Khande Rao, Superintendent of Land Records, Raipur, and Munshi Kanhiya Lal, of the Gazetteer office.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Beldar.

The Castes and Tribes of Southern India, art. Odde.

Akola District Gazetteer (Mr. C. Brown), pp. 132, 133.

Amraoti District Gazetteer (Messrs. Nelson and Fitzgerald), p. 146.

See article on Badhak.

Kennedy, p. 247.

Crooke, art. Beria.

The following particulars are taken from a note by Mr. K. N. Date, Deputy Superintendent, Reformatory School, Jubbulpore.

This article is based principally on a paper by Panna Lal, Revenue Inspector, Bilaspur, and also on papers by Mr. Syed Sher Ali, Naib-Tahsildar, Mr. Hira Lal and Mr. Aduram Chaudhri of the Gazetteer office.

For the meaning of the term Baiga and its application to the tribe, see also article on Bhuiya.

It is or was, of course, a common practice for a husband to cut off his wife's nose if he suspected her of being unfaithful to him. But whether the application of the epithet to the goddess should be taken to imply anything against her moral character is not known.

This article is mainly compiled from a paper by Pyare Lal Misra, Ethnographic Clerk.

Bombay Gazetteer (Campbell), xviii. p. 464.

The following particulars are taken from Colonel Portman's Report on the Bhamtas of the Deccan (Bombay, 1887).

Portman, loc. cit.

Bombay Gazetteer (Campbell), xviii. p. 465.

This article contains some information from a paper by Mr. Gopal Parmanand, Deputy Inspector of Schools, Saugor.

Memoirs of the Races of the N.W.P. vol. i. p. 35.

Tribes and Castes, art. Bharbhunja.

See article on Kurmi. The remainder of this section is taken from Mr. Gopal Parmanand's notes.

Ibidem.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Kandu.

This article is compiled from notes taken by Mr. Hira Lal, Assistant Gazetteer Superintendent in Jubbulpore, and from a paper by Ram Lal Sharma, schoolmaster, Bilaspur.

Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P., art. Bhar.

C.P. Census Report, 1881, p. 188.

Dhaya means the system of shifting cultivation, which until prohibited was so injurious to the forests.