[259] Cunningham"s _Archaeological Survey Reports_, xx. p. 24.
[260] _Ibidem_.
[261] General Cunningham"s enumeration of the _pals_ is as follows: Five Jadon clans--Chhirkilta, Dalat, Dermot, Nai, Pundelot; five Tuar clans--Balot, Darwar, Kalesa, Lundavat, Rattawat; one Kachhwaha clan--Dingal; one Bargjuar clan--Singal. Besides these there is one miscellaneous or half-blood clan, Palakra, making up the common total of 12 1/2 clans.
[262] Ibbetson"s _Punjab Census Report_, para. 582. Sir D. Ibbetson considered it doubtful, however, whether the expression referred to the Mina caste.
[263] Major Powlett, _Gazetteer of Alwar_.
[264] _Asiatic Studies_, vol. i. p. 162.
[265] Quoted in Dowson"s _Elliott"s History of India_, iii. p. 103.
[266] Dowson"s _Elliott_, iv. pp. 60, 75, 283, quoted in Crooke"s _Tribes and Castes_.
[267] _Census Report_ (1881), para. 582.
[268] _Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P._ art. Meo.
[269] _Rajasthan_, i. p. 589.
[270] _Archaeological Reports_. vol. xx. p. 26.
[271] _Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces_, vol. iii. p. 496.
[272] Baden Powell"s _Land Systems of British India_, vol. iii. p. 116.
[273] _Punjab Ethnography_, p. 289.
[274] _Brief View_, p. 43.
[275] Crooke, _loc. cit._
[276] This article is partly based on papers by Mr. Gopal Parmanand, Deputy Inspector of Schools, Saugor, and Mr. Shamsuddin, Sub-Inspector, City Police, Saugor.
[277] _Brief View_.
[278] _Bombay Ethnographic Survey Draft Monograph on Jingar_.
[279] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Mochi.
[280] _Eastern India_, vol. iii. p. 105.
[281] Rajendra Lal Mitra, _Indo-Aryans_, vol. i. pp. 222, 223.
[282] _Ethnology of Bengal_, p. 326.
[283] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Bind.
[284] Crooke"s _Tribes and Castes_, art. Bind.
[285] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, _loc. cit._
[286] The clever writer referred to in the preceding line.
[287] Breast-cloth.
[288] This article is mainly compiled from papers by Mr. Hira Lal and Babu Gulab Singh, Superintendent of Land Records, Betul.
[289] _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 158.
[290] _Butea frondosa_.
[291] _Phyllanthus emiblica_.
[292] This article is compiled from papers by Mr. Chatterji, retired E.A.C., Jubbulpore; Professor Sadashiva Jairam, M.A., Hislop College, Nagpur; and Mr. C. Shrinivas Naidu, First a.s.sistant Master, Sironcha, Chanda; and from the Central Provinces District Gazetteers.
[293] Mr. Crooke"s _Tribes and Castes,_ art. Nai.
[294] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Nai, para. 5.
[295] The following account is largely taken from Mr. Nesfield"s _Brief View of the Caste System_, pp. 42, 43.
[296] _Eighteenth Century Middle-Cla.s.s Life_, by C.S. Torres, in the _Nineteenth Century and After_, Sept. 1910.
[297] _Private Life of an Eastern King_, p. 17.
[298] _Ibidem_, p. 107.
[299] _Private Life of an Eastern King_, p. 330.
[300] In the _Balaghat District Gazetteer_.
[301] D.B. Pandian, _Indian Village Life_, under Barber.
[302] Quoted in Malcolm"s _Sketch of the Sikhs, Asiatic Researches_, vol. xi., 1810, p. 289.
[303] Quoted in Sir D. Ibbetson"s account of the Sikhs in _Punjab Census Report_ (1881).
[304] _Sketch of the Sikhs_, _ibidem_, pp. 284, 285.
[305] Professor Blumners, _Home Life of the Ancient Greeks_, translation, p. 455.
[306] _Golden Bough_, 2nd ed. vol. iii. p. 370.
[307] Hendley, _Account of the Bhils_, _J.A.S.B._ vol. x.x.xiv., 1875, p. 360.
[308] _Bombay Gazetteer_, _Hindus of Gujarat_, p. 528.