art. Odde.

[257] _Akola District Gazetteer_ (Mr. C. Brown), pp. 132, 133.

[258] _Amraoti District Gazetteer_ (Messrs. Nelson and Fitzgerald),
p. 146.

[259] See article on Badhak.

[260] Kennedy, p. 247.

[261] Crooke, art. Beria.

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

[263] 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.

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

[265] 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.

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

[267] _Bombay Gazetteer_ (Campbell), xviii. p. 464.

[268] The following particulars are taken from Colonel Portman's
_Report on the Bhamtas of the Deccan_ (Bombay, 1887).

[269] Portman, _loc. cit._

[270] _Bombay Gazetteer_ (Campbell), xviii. p. 465.

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

[272] _Memoirs of the Races of the N.W.P._ vol. i. p. 35.

[273] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Bharbhunja.

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

[275] _Ibidem._

[276] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Kandu.

[277] 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.

[278] _Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P._, art. Bhar.

[279] _C.P. Census Report_, 1881, p. 188.

[280] _Dhaya_ means the system of shifting cultivation, which until
prohibited was so injurious to the forests.

[281] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Brahman.

[282] Art. Bhat.

[283] Malcolm, _Central India_, ii. p. 132.

[284] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 406.

[285] Malcolm, ii. p. 135.

[286] _Rajasthan_, ii. pp. 133, 134.

[287] Great King, the ordinary method of address to Brahmans.

[288] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 175.

[289] _Rasmala_, ii. pp. 261, 26