rticle on Kunbi, para. 1.
[52] _Village Communities_, p. 127.
[53] _History of the Marathas_, vol. i. p. 25.
[54] _Village Communities_, pp. 226, 227.
[55] _The Aryan Household_, ed. 1891, p. 190.
[56] _Ibidem_, p. 228. Professor Hearn followed Sir Henry Maine in
thinking that the clan was an expansion of the patriarchal joint
family; but the reasons against this view are given subsequently.
[57] _Memoir of Central India_, vol. ii. p. 22.
[58] _La Cite antique_, 21st ed. pp. 66, 68.
[59] _La Cite antique_, 21 st ed. pp. 66, 68.
[60] _Nigeria_, quoted in _Saturday Review_, 6th April 1912.
[61] _Religion of the Semites_, p. 96.
[62] See article Sunar for a discussion of the sanctity of gold and
silver, and the ornaments made from them.
[63] _Michelia champaka_, a variety of the jack or bread-fruit tree.
[64] See article Darzi for further discussion of the use of sewn
clothes in India.
[65] See articles on Bhulia, Panka, Kori and Julaha.
[66] Traill's _Account of Kumaon, Asiatic Researches_, vol. xvi. (1828)
p. 213.
[67] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Bari.
[68] Pointed out by Mr. Crooke.
[69] The Marathi name for the god Hanuman.
[70] _Linguistic Survey_, vol. iv., _Munda and Dravidian Languages_,
p. 7.
[71] _Acacia catechu_.
[72] See article on Gond.
[73] _Linguistic Survey_, p. 15.
[74] Introduction to _The Mundas and their Country_, p. 9.
[75] _Linguistic Survey_, p. 277.
[76] See for this the article on Kol, from which the above passage
is abridged.
[77] Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii. p. 175.
[78] _Cochin Census Report_, 1901, quoted in Sir H. Risley's _Peoples
of India_, 2nd ed. p. 115.
[79] This was permissible in the time of Asoka, _circa_ 250
B.C. Mr. V.A. Smith's _Asoka_, pp. 56, 58.
[80] Sir H. Risley's _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Tanti.
[81] See article Kanjar for a discussion of the connection of the
gipsies and Thugs with the Kanjars.
[82] See article Chamar, para. 1.
[83] _Loha_, iron; _tamba_, copper; _kansa_, brass or bell-metal;
_sona_, gold.
[84] _Kanch_, glass.
[85] _Phul_, flower; _haldi_,turmeric; _jira_, cumin.
[86] _Crotalaria juncea_. See article Lorha for a discussion of the
objections to this plant.
[87] _Morinda citrifolia_. The taboo against the plant is either
because the red dye resembles blood, or because a number of insects
are destroyed in boiling the roots to extract the dye.
[88] See article
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