imprisonment involves the eating of ceremonially
impure food. These rules are common to most Hindu castes, and the
Dhimars are taken only as a typical example. They seem to have little
or no connection with ordinary morality. But in Jhansi Mr. Crooke
remarks that a Kahar is put out of caste for theft in his master's
house. This again, however, might be considered as an offence against
the community, tending to lower their corporate character in their
business, and as such deserving of social punishment.

[549] This article is partly based on an account of the caste
furnished by Mr. H. F. E. Bell and drawn up by Mr. F. R. R. Rudman
in the _Mandla District Gazetteer_.

[550] _Folklore of Northern India_, vol. ii. p. 8.

[551] Sherring's _Hindu Castes_, i. 342-3.

[552] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Dhobi.

[553] _Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan._

[554] _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 155.

[555] _Central Provinces Census Report_ (1891), p. 202.

[556] _Loc. cit._

[557] _Bihar Peasant Life, s.v._ Dhobi.

[558] _Ethnographic Notes in Southern India_, p. 226.

[559] _Behind the Bungalow._

[560] This article is mainly compiled from papers by Mr. Gokul
Prasad, Naib-Tahsildar, Dhamtari, and Pyare Lal Misra, a clerk in
the Gazetteer office.

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

[562] This article is taken almost entirely from a paper drawn up by
Mr. Hira Lal, Extra Assistant Commissioner.

[563] This article is mainly compiled from Sir E. D. Maclagan's
_Punjab Census Report_ (1891), pp. 192-196, the article on Fakir
in the Rev. T. P. Hughes' _Dictionary of Islam_, and the volume on
_Muhammadans of Gujarat_ in the _Bombay Gazetteer_, pp. 20-24.

[564] Hughes, p. 116.

[565] _Punjab Census Report_ (1891), p. 196.

[566] Hughes' _Dictionary of Islam_, art. Fakir.

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