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The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1
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“We have given up eating vegetables, we eat no brinjals: we eat onions with more relish; we eat no more red vegetables. The chauka has been placed in the village. The true name is of God; (to which the pair replied) ‘Amen.’”
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See article Nānakpanthi for an account of Nānak’s creed.
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Here again, Sir D. Ibbetson notes, it is often the women who are the original offenders: “I have often asked Sikhs how it is that, believing as they do in only one God, they can put any faith in and render any obedience to Brāhmans who acknowledge a large number of deities, and their answer in every case has been that they do not themselves believe in them; but their women do, and to please them they are obliged to pay attention to what the Brāhmans say.”
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Punjab Census Report (1891), para. 107.
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Account of the Sikhs, Asiatic Researches.
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Apparently the Scripture of Govind, the tenth guru.
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‘Hurrah for the Guru’s Khālsa, Victory to the Guru.’
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Sir Lepel Griffin’s Life of Ranjīt Singh.
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Based on the account of the sect in the volume, Hindus of Gujarāt, of the Bombay Gazetteer, and The Swāmi-Nārāyan Sect pamphlet, printed at the Education Society’s Press, Bombay, 1887.
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Bishop Heber’s Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces, pp. 143, 153.
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The Swāmi-Nārāyan Sect, pp. 4, 22. The above details are given, because in the Bombay Gazetteer the Swāmi is said to have prohibited the taking of food with low-caste people, and caste pollution; and this appears incorrect.
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The Swāmi-Nārāyan Sect, p. 25.
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Bombay Ducks, p. 194.
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For a suggested explanation of the myth of Parasurāma see article Panwār Rājpūt.
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See also article Ahīr.
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Kabīrpanthi, Nānakpanthi, Dādupanthi, Swāmi-Nārāyan, etc.
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This article is based on Professor Wilson’s Hindu Sects, M. Chevrillon’s Romantic India, and some notes collected by Munshi Kanhya Lal of the Gazetteer Office.
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Dhatura alba, a plant sacred to Siva, whose seed is a powerful narcotic, and is used to poison travellers.
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This article consists entirely of extracts from the article on the Wahhābi sect in the Rev. T. P. Hughes’ Dictionary of Islām.
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Irvine, Army of the Mughals, p. 198.
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Irvine, Army of the Mughals, p. 232.
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Summary of the Marātha and Pindāri Campaigns, p. 264.
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Bombay Gazetteer, vol. ix. part ii. p. 16.
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Madras Census Report (1891), p. 221.
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Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 543.
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Berar Census Report (1881), p. 128.
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Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 529.
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Khān Bahādur Lutfullah Faridi in Bombay Gazetteer, Muh. Guj.
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Berār Census Report, ibidem.
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In 1911 about 3000 persons belonging to the caste were returned, mainly from Bilāspur District, and the Korea and Sargūja States.
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Crooke, vol. i. p. 184.
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Eastern India, ii. p. 467.
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North-West Provinces Gazetteer, vol. xiv., Mirzāpur, p. 365.
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Ethnographic Notes in Southern India, page 72.
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This article consists of extracts from Mr. Crooke’s account of the caste in his Tribes and Castes.
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Eastern India, ii. 248.
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Punjab Census Report (1881), para. 542.
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Tribes and Castes, art. Bhātia.
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Rājasthān, ii. p. 292.
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Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Bind.
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Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P. and Oudh, art. Bind.
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Bauhinia scandens.
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Ethnology of Bengal. pp. 158, 221.
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See art. Bhunjia.
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Linguistic Survey of India, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Dialects, p. 102.
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Caldwell’s Dravidian Grammar, pp. 123 and 134. Captain Glasfurd says: ‘The termination wār is a Telugu affix signifying person or man’ (Settlement Report of the Upper Godāvari District (1868), p. 26).
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This article consists only of extracts from the accounts of Colonel Dalton and Sir H. Risley.
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Dalton’s Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 126, 127.
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Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Chero.
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See also art. Daharia for a discussion of the origin of that caste.
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Tribes and Castes, art. Dhālgar.
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From a paper by Nārāyan Bohidār, Schoolmaster, Sonpur State.
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This article is based on papers by Mr. D.P. Kshirsāgar, Naib-Tahsildar, Buldāna, and Mr. Khāndekar, Headmaster, Nandura.
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Madras Census Report (1901), p. 149.
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Bhandāra Settlement Report (Mr. A.B. Napier), p. 8.
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Criminal Tribes of the C.P., p. 61.
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Buchanan, i. p. 331.
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B.G. Muh. Guj., p. 84.
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This article is based on information collected by Mr. Hira Lai in Betūl.
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Art. Dom. in Tribes and Castes of Bengal, and of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.
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See article Are.
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Thāna Gazetteer, pp. 119, 120.
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Sholapur Gazetteer, p. 158.
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Madras Census Report (1891), p. 238.
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Ibidem, p. 280.
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Satāra Gazetteer, p, 41.
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Nāsik Gazetteer, p. 54.
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This account is taken from inquiries made by Mr. Hīra Lāl in Patna.
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Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Bauri.
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From a paper by Mr. Kripāsindh Tripāthi, Headmaster, Saria Middle School, Sārangarh State.
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From pag, a foot.
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Malcolm, Memoir of Central India, ii. p. 21.
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This paper is compiled from notes taken by Mr. Hīra Lāl at Rāj-Nāndgaon and Betūl.
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Perhaps Pandanus fascicularis.
463
This article is compiled from papers by C. Ramiah, Kānungo, Sironchā, and W.G. Padāya Naidu, clerk, District Office, Chānda.
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Mysore Census Report (1891), p. 205.
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This article is compiled from a paper by Mr. Ghāsinām Dāni, Deputy Inspector of Schools, Bastar State.
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The caste numbered 85 persons in 1911. The above notice is compiled from a paper by Mr. Krishna Sewak, Naib-Tahsīldār, Bargarh.
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Based on inquiries made by Mr. Hīra Lāl, Assistant Gazetteer Superintendent in Bhandāra.
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Madras Census Report (1901), p. 168.
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Bombay Gazetteer, Guj. Mukh. p. 18.
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Elliott’s Memoirs, vol. i. p. 54.
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Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, vol. i. p. 161.
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Madras Census Report (1891), p. 303.
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India Census Report (1891), p. 200.
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Man, November 1909.
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Tone, Letter on the Marāthas (1798), India Office Tracts, p. 25.
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Lane, Modern Egyptians, p. 373.
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Census Report (1891), p. 211.
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From a paper by Mr. Rājārām Gangādhar Deshpānde, Tahsildār, Wardha.
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Settlement Report of the Upper Godāvari District (1868), quoted in Mr. Nunn’s Monograph on the Gold and Silver Industries of the Central provinces.
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Monograph on the Gold and Silver Industries, loc. cit.
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Berār Census Report (1881), p. 219.
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Based on a paper by Mr. Ali Mustafa, Nāib-Tahsīldār, Hatta.
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Census Report (1891), p. 179.
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In the introduction to Firishta’s History (Elliot, vi. p. 568), it is stated that Roh is the name of a particular mountain (country) which extends in length from Swāt and Bajaur to the town of Siwi belonging to Bhakar. In breadth it stretches from Hasan Abdul to Kābul. Kandahār is situated in this country. (Crooke’s Hobson-Jobson, p. 766.)
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Mr. Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, vol. iv. pp. 165, 166.
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Proper Names of the Punjabis, p. 74.
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Indian Life and Sentiment, p. 99.
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Linguistic Survey, vol. iv. p. 30.
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Linguistic Survey, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Languages, p. 79.
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Ibidem, pp. 84, 85.
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Ethnology of Bengal, p. 235 et seq.
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Tribes and Castes of Bengal, App. I.
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Ibidem, pp. 222, 223.
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This article is written from papers by Mr. G.A. Khān, Assistant Commissioner, Venkatesh Tumaiya Ayāwar, Schoolmaster, Chānda, and Mr. G. Padaya Naidu, District Officer, Chānda.
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North Arcot Manual, i. p. 200.
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North Arcot Manual, i. p. 242.
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Based on a paper by G. Pydiah Naidu of the Gazetteer Office.
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Vol. xi. p. 433.
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Mr. Edwardes, Byways of Bombay, p. 79.
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Bombay Gazetteer, ibidem.
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J.A.S.B., No. 3 of 1903, p. 103.
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Partly based on a note by Mr. C.J. Irwin, Assistant Commissioner, Jubbulpore.
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Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xvii. (Sholapur), p. 234.
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Bombay Gazetteer, Belgaum, p. 250.
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Tribes and Castes, art. Sikligar.
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Based on a paper by Mr. Gokul Prasād, Nāib-Tahsīldār, Dhamtari.
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Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Tānti.
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Madras Census Report (1901), p. 153.
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Tribes and Castes of Bengal, s.v.
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Madras Census Report (1891), p. 243.
