The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2. Robert Vane Russell
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Gunthorpe’s
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Art. Bāwaria, para. 12.
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Kennedy,
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Kennedy,
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This article is partly based on a paper by Munshi Kanhya Lāl of the Gazetteer office.
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Crooke’s
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The word Achera is merely a jingle put in to make the rhyme complete. Kachera is a maker of glass bangles.
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This article is based largely on a monograph by the Rev. J. Lampard, missionary, Baihar, and also on papers by Muhammad Hanīf Siddīqi, forest ranger, Bilāspur, and Mr. Muhammad Ali Haqqāni, B.A., Tahsīldār, Dindori. Some extracts have been made from Colonel Ward’s
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In Bengal the Bhumia or Bhumīj are an important tribe.
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Colonel Ward gives the bride’s house as among the Gonds. But inquiry in Mandla shows that if this custom formerly existed it has been abandoned.
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The Great God. The Gonds also worship Bura Deo, resident in a
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Opened in 1905.
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Mr. Lampard’s monograph.
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Farthings.
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This article contains material from Sir E. Maclagan’s
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Lit. the birth on the eighth day, as Krishna was born on the 8th of dark Bhādon.
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This paragraph is taken from Professor Wilson’s
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This article is based on papers by Mr. Habīb Ullah, Pleader, Burhānpur, Mr. W. Bagley, Subdivisional Officer, and Munsh Kanhya Lāl, of the Gazetteer office.
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This legend is probably a vague reminiscence of the historical fact that a Mālwa army was misled by a Gond guide in the Nimār forests and cut up by the local Muhammadan ruler. The well-known Rāja Mān of Jodhpur was, it is believed, never in Nimār.
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See para. 19 below.
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See commencement of article.
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For examples, the subordinate articles on Agarwāl, Oswāl, Maheshri, Khandelwāl, Lād, Agrahari, Ajudhiabāsi, and Srimāli may be consulted. The census lists contain numerous other territorial names.
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That is Mārwār. But perhaps the term here is used in the wider sense of Rājputāna.
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The Parwārs probably belonged originally to Rājputāna; see subordinate article.
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The common brass drinking-vessel.
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