Robert Vane Russell - The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4

See article on Panwār Rājpūt.

Berār Census Report (1881), p. 144.

Kitts’ Berār Census Report p. 144.

Described in the articles on Kurmi and Kunbi.

Loc. cit .

Bombay Gazetteer, Gujarāt Hindus, loc. cit.

In Berār for ten days—Kitts’ Berār Census Report, l.c.

3rd Baisākh (April) Sudi, commencement of agricultural year.

Berār Census Report, l.c.

Berār Census Report, l.c.

Bombay Gazetteer, Gujarat Hindus .

It was formerly suggested that the fact of the Mahars being the chief worshippers at the shrines of Sheikh Farīd indicated that the places themselves had been previously held sacred, and had been annexed by the Muhammadan priests; and the legend of the giant, who might represent the demonolatry of the aboriginal faith, being slain by the saint might be a parable, so to say, expressing this process. But in view of the way in which the Mehtars worship Musalmān saints, it seems quite likely that the Mahārs might do so for the same reason, that is, because Islām partly frees them from the utter degradation imposed by Hinduism. Both views may have some truth. As regards the legends themselves, it is highly improbable that Sheikh Farid, a well-known saint of northern India, can ever have been within several hundred miles of either of the places with which they connect him.

From Mr. C. Brown’s notes.

C.P. Police Gazette .

Kitts, l.c.

Ibidem .

Stated by Mr. C. Brown.

Vol. ii. p. 237.

Bombay Gazetteer , vol. xii. p. 175.

Rev. A. Taylor in Bombay Gazetteer, Gujarāt Hindus , p. 341 f.

The following passage is taken from Forbes, Rāsmāla , i. p. 112.

Bombay Gazetteer , vol. xi p. 73.

Bombay Gazetteer , vol. xi. p. 73.

Grant Duff; History of the Marāthas , vol. i. p. 24.

Nāgpur Settlement Report (1899), p. 29.

This article consists of extracts from Sir H. Risley’s account of the caste in the Tribes and Castes of Bengal .

See lists of exogamous septs of Mahli, Sandāl, Munda and Puri in Appendix to Tribes and Castes cf Bengal .

Ethnology of Bengal , p. 326.

This article is based on papers by Mr. Hīra Lāl and Suraj Baksh Singh, Assistant Superintendent, Udaipur State, with references to Mr. Crooke’s exhaustive article on the Majhwārs in his Tribes and Castes .

Crooke, art Majhwār, para. 1.

Tribes and Castes of Bengal , art. Mānjhi.

Crooke, Tribes and Castes of Bengal , art. Mānjhi, para. 4.

Crooke, Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Mānjhi, para. 63.

Ibidem, para. 54.

Ficus glomerata .

Based entirely on Colonel Dalton’s account in the Ethnology of Bengal , and Sir H. Risley’s in the Tribes and Castes of Bengal .