Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits_ (1849), p. 328.
[605] J. Hutton, _A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits and
Gang-robbers of India_ (London, 1857).
[606] This article is based almost entirely on a description of the
Sansias contained in Colonel Sleeman's _Report on the Badhak or Bagri
Dacoits_ (1849). Most of the material belongs to a report drawn up
at Nagpur by Mr. C. Ramsay, Assistant Resident, in 1845.
[607] Sleeman's _Report on the Badhaks_, p. 253.
[608] _Ibidem_, p. 254.
[609] Sir D. Ibbetson, _Punjab Census Report_ (1881), para. 577.
[610] P. 259.
[611] The description of a dacoity is combined from two accounts
given at pp. 257, 273 of Colonel Sleeman's _Report_.
[612] _Sorghum vulgare_.
[613] Made of the bark of the date-palm tied with strips of cloth
round some inflammable wood.
[614] Sleeman, p. 263.
[615] But it is unlucky for a snake to cross one's path in front.
[616] Sleeman, pp. 261, 262.
[617] Committee of five persons.
[618] _Ficus religiosa_.
[619] The seer = 2 lbs.
[620] _Criminal Classes in the Bombay Presidency_; Sansias and Berias.
[621] Mr. Gayer, _Central Provinces Police Lectures_; p. 68.
[622] This article is mainly based on a paper by Mr. Rama Prasad
Bohidar, Assistant Master, Sambalpur High School.
[623] See article Beldar for a notice of the different groups of
earth-workers.
[624] Said to be derived from their name Waddar.
[625] Story of Jasma Odni in Sati Charita Sangrah.
[626] This article is principally based on papers by Munshi
Gopinath, Naib-Tahsildar, Sonpur, Mr. Kaluram Pachore, Assistant
Settlement Officer, Sambalpur, and Mr. Hira Lal, Assistant Gazetteer
Superintendent.
[627] _Archaeological Reports_, vol. xvii. pp. 120, 122.
[628] _India Census Report_ (1901), p. 283.
[629] _Archaeological Reports_, vol. xvii. p. 113.
[630] Crooke's _Tribes and Castes of N.W.P._, art Savara.
[631] _Tribes and Castes of N.W.P._, art. Savara.
[632] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Savar.
[633] _F. glomerata_.
[634] _Balaghat Gazetteer_, C.E. Low, p. 207.
[635] _Bhandara Settlement Report_ (A.J. Lawrence), p. 49.
[636] Major Lucie Smith's _Chanda Settlement Report_ (1869), p. 105.
[637] The following account of the process of gold-washing is taken
from Mr. Low's _Balaghat Gazetteer_, p. 201.
[638] This article is compiled from a paper by Mr. Bhagirath Patnaik,
Diwan of Rairakhol, and from notes taken by Mr. H
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