ni,
B.A., Tahsildar, Dindori. Some extracts have been made from Colonel
Ward's _Mandla Settlement Report_ (1869), and from Colonel Bloomfield's
_Notes on the Baigas_.

[86] In Bengal the Bhumia or Bhumij are an important tribe.

[87] Colonel Ward's _Mandla Settlement Report_ (1868-69), p. 153.

[88] _Shorea robusta._

[89] Jarrett's _Ain-i-Akbari_, vol. ii. p. 196.

[90] Colonel Ward gives the bride's house as among the Gonds. But
inquiry in Mandla shows that if this custom formerly existed it has
been abandoned.

[91] Forsyth's _Highlands of Central India_, p. 377.

[92] The Great God. The Gonds also worship Bura Deo, resident in a
_saj_ tree.

[93] Opened in 1905.

[94] _Mandla Settlement Report_ (1868-69), p. 153.

[95] _Notes on the Baigas_, p. 4.

[96] Mr. Lampard's monograph.

[97] Farthings.

[98] This article contains material from Sir E. Maclagan's _Punjab
Census Report_ (1891), and Dr. J. N. Bhattacharya's _Hindu Castes
and Sects_ (Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta).

[99] _Dictionary_, s.v.

[100] Sir E. Maclagan's _Punjab Census Report_ (1891), p. 122.

[101] _Memoir of Mathura._

[102] _Hindu Castes and Sects_, p. 449.

[103] Lit. the birth on the eighth day, as Krishna was born on the
8th of dark Bhadon.

[104] Mr. Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Vallabhacharya.

[105] _Hindu Castes and Sects_, p. 457.

[106] From _laskkar_, an army.

[107] This paragraph is taken from Professor Wilson's _Account of
Hindu Sects in the Asiatic Researches_.

[108] This article is based on papers by Mr. Habib Ullah, Pleader,
Burhanpur, Mr. W. Bagley, Subdivisional Officer, and Munsh Kanhya Lal,
of the Gazetteer office.

[109] This legend is probably a vague reminiscence of the historical
fact that a Malwa army was misled by a Gond guide in the Nimar forests
and cut up by the local Muhammadan ruler. The well-known Raja Man of
Jodhpur was, it is believed, never in Nimar.

[110] The _ghat_ or river-bank for the disposal of corpses.

[111] _Madras Census Report_ (1891), p. 277.

[112] _Ibidem_ (1891), p. 226.

[113] _Ethnographic Notes in Southern India_, p. 16.

[114] _Madras Census Report_ (1891), p. 277.

[115] See para. 19 below.

[116] See commencement of article.

[117] _C.P. Census Report_ (1911), Occupation Chapter, Subsidiary
Table I. p. 234.

[118] For examples, the subordinate articles on Agarwal, Oswal,
Maheshri, Khandelwal, Lad, Agrahari, Ajudhiabasi, and Srimali may be