Part 66

Tori balayan leun. For explanation see above.

Commencement of the agricultural year.

This article is partly based on a paper by Mr. Bijai Bahadur, Naib-Tahsildar, Balaghat.

Bombay Ethnographic Survey, draft article on Chitrakathi.

May-June. The Akhatij is the beginning of the agricultural year.

Berar Census Report (1881), paragraph 206. The passage is slightly altered and abridged in reproduction.

Vol. ix. part. ii. Muhammadans of Gujarat, p. 57.

Rajasthan, ii. p. 292.

Bombay Gazetteer, l.c.

In recording this point Mr. Faridi gives the following note: "In 1847 a case occurred which shows how firmly the Memans cling to their original tribal customs. The widow of Haji Nur Muhammad of the Lakariya family demanded a share of her deceased husband's property according to Muhammadan law. The jama-at or community decided that a widow had no claim to share her husband's estates under the Hindu law. Before the High Court, in spite of the ridicule of other Sunnis, the elders of the Cutchi Memans declared that their caste rules denied the widow's claim. The matter caused and is still (1896) causing agitation, as the doctors of the Sunni law at Mecca have decided that as the law of inheritance is laid down by the holy Koran, a wilful departure from it is little short of apostasy. The Memans are contemplating a change, but so far they have not found themselves able to depart from their tribal practices."

This article is based on papers by Mr. Vithal Rao, Naib-Tahsildar, Bilaspur, and Messrs. Kanhya Lal and Pyare Lal Misra of the Gazetteer office.

Crooke, Tribes and Castes, art. Kol.

Aegle Marmelos.

Butea frondosa.

Nag, a cobra.

Kept woman, a term applied to a widow.

Moor's Hindu Infanticide, p. 133.

James Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, i. p. 313.

Rajendra Lal Mitra, Indo-Aryans, i. p. 263.

Journal of Indian Art and Industry, xvi., April 1912, p. 3.

Dr. Jevons, Introduction to the History of Religion, p. 60.

Private Life of an Eastern King, p. 294.

Hobson-Jobson, s.v. 'Roundel.'

Old English manuscript quoted by Sir R. Temple in Ind. Ant. (December 1904), p. 316.

Hobson-Jobson, s.v. 'Kittysol.'

Hobson-Jobson, s.v. 'Roundel.'

Hobson-Jobson, ibidem.

W. W. Skeat, The Past at our Doors.