, 1828, p. 213.
[349] _Melia indica_.
[350] _Bengali Festivals and Holidays_, by the Rev. Bihari Lal De,
_Calcutta Review_, vol. v. pp. 59, 60.
[351] Based on papers by Munshi Kanhya Lal of the Gazetteer Office,
and Mr. Mir Patcha, Tahsildar, Bilaspur.
[352] Mr. Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Lunia.
[353] Mr. Crooke's _Tribes and Castes_, art. Lunia.
[354] _Papers relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of the C.P._, p. 6.
[355] Note by Mr. Tawney as Deputy Commissioner of Chhindwara, quoted
in _Central Provinces Census Report_ of 1881 (Mr. Drysdale).
[356] Sir C.A. Elliott's _Hoshangabad Settlement Report_, p. 70.
[357] _Linguistic Survey_, vol. iv. p. 406.
[358] _Bengal Census Report_ (1901).
[359] _Ethnography_, p. 248.
[360] _Tribes and Castes_, vol. ii. p. 141.
[361] Panna Lal, Revenue Inspector.
[362] _Sorghum halepense_.
[363] _Shorea robusta_.
[364] In Bilaspur the men have an iron comb in the hair with a circular
end and two prongs like a fork. Women do not wear this.
[365] _Jungle Life in India_, p. 134.
[366] This article is compiled from papers by Pyare Lal Misra,
Ethnographic clerk, and Hazari Lal, Manager, Court of Wards, Chanda.
[367] The basil plant.
[368] _Bilaspur Settlement Report_ (1868), p. 49.
[369] From a note by Mr. Gauri Shankar, Manager, Court of Wards, Drug.
[370] With the exception of the historical notice, this article
is principally based on a paper by Mr. Muhammad Yusuf, reader to
Mr. C.E. Low, Deputy Commissioner of Balaghat.
[371] Tod's _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 407.
[372] Foreign elements in the Hindu population, _Ind. Ant._ (January
1911), vol. xl.
[373] _Early History of India_ (Oxford, Clarendon Press), 3rd ed.,
p. 303.
[374] _Ibidem_, 2nd ed., p. 288.
[375] _Ibidem_, p. 316.
[376] _Early History of India_ (Oxford, Clarendon Press), 3rd ed.,
p. 319.
[377] _Garret's Classical Dictionary of Hinduism_, _s.v._ Jamadagni
and Rama.
[378] The following extract is taken from Mr. V.A. Smith's _Early
History of India_, 3rd ed. pp. 395, 396. The passage has been somewhat
abridged in reproduction.
[379] Malcolm, i. p. 26.
[380] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 215.
[381] A similar instance in Europe is related by Colonel Tod,
concerning the origin of the Madrid Restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne
at Paris. After Francis I had been captured by the Spaniards he was
allowed to return to his capital, on pledging his parole that he would
go bac
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