[15] _Ind. Ant._ (Jan. 1911), "Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population," by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar.
[16] Elliot, _Supplemental Glossary_, _s.v._ Ahir.
[17] _Early History of India_, 3rd ed. p. 286.
[18] Elliot, _ibidem._
[19] _Bombay Monograph on Ahir._
[20] Elliot, _ibidem._
[21] _Central Provinces Gazetteer_ (1871), Introduction.
[22] _Linguistic Survey of India_, vol. ix. part ii. p. 50.
[23] _Bombay Ethnographic Survey._
[24] Quoted in _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Goala.
[25] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 639.
[26] Gokul was the place where Krishna was brought up, and the Gokulastha Gosains are his special devotees.
[27] _Behind the Bungalow._
[28] _Eastern India_, ii. p. 467.
[29] Buchanan, _Eastern India_, ii. pp. 924, 943.
[30] This article is mainly based on a paper by Mr. W. S. Slaney, E.A.C., Akola.
[31] _Berar Census Report_ (1881).
[32] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Arakh.
[33] _Caja.n.u.s indicus._
[34] _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 157.
[35] Based on papers by Mr. Bijai Bahadur Royzada, Naib-Tahsildar Hinganghat, and Munshi Kanhya Lal of the Gazetteer office.
[36] A preparation of raisins and other fruits and rice.
[37] The ordinary tola is a rupee weight or two-fifths of an ounce.
[38] _Jasminum zambac._
[39] _Michelia champaca._
[40] _Phyllanthus emblica._
[41] _Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits and the Measures adopted by the Government of India for their Suppression_, printed in 1849.
[42] Sleeman, p. 10.
[43] Sleeman, p. 10.
[44] Sleeman, p. 57.
[45] Sleeman, p. 95.
[46] Sleeman, p. 231.
[47] Sleeman, p. 217.
[48] Sleeman, p. 20.
[49] Sleeman, p. 21.
[50] Sleeman, p. 81.
[51] Sleeman, p. 82.
[52] Sleeman, p. 152.
[53] Sleeman, p. 127. This pa.s.sage is from a letter written by a magistrate, Mr. Ramsay.
[54] Sleeman, p. 129.
[55] Sleeman, p. 112.
[56] Sleeman, p. 124.
[57] Sleeman, p. 125.
[58] Sleeman, p. 147.
[59] Sleeman, p. 104.
[60] Sleeman, p. 110.
[61] Sleeman, p. 131.
[62] Sleeman, p. 205.
[63] Sleeman, p. 106.
[64] Malcolm"s _Memoir of Central India_, ii. p. 479.