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 Cité antique, 21st ed. pp. 66, 68.
59
La Cité 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 Sunār 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 Julāha.
66
Traill’s Account of Kumaon, Asiatic Researches, vol. xvi. (1828) p. 213.
67
Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Bāri.
68
Pointed out by Mr. Crooke.
69
The Marāthi name for the god Hanumān.
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. Tānti.
81
See article Kanjar for a discussion of the connection of the gipsies and Thugs with the Kanjars.
82
See article Chamār, para. 1.
83
Loha, iron; tamba, copper; kānsa, brass or bell-metal; sona, gold.
84
Kānch, 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 on Brāhman.
89
Sonjhara is a separate caste as well as a subcaste of Dhīmar.
90
See article Kurmi, appendix, for some instances of territorial names.
91
Wilson’s Indian Caste, p. 439.
92
Vol. i. pp. 272, 276.
93
Studies in Ancient History, p. 123.
94
See lists of totems of Australian and Red Indian tribes. Sir J.G. Frazer notes that the majority are edible animals or plants.
95
Address to the British Association, 1902. I had not had the advantage of reading the address prior to the completion of this work.
96
M’Lennan, Studies in Ancient History, p. 123, quoting from Grant’s Origin and Descent of the Gael.
97
Totemism and Exogamy, i. pp. 112, 120, ii. p. 536, iii. pp. 100, 162; Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 209–10; Native Tribes of South-East Australia p. 145; Native Tribes of Northern Australia (Professor Baldwin Spencer), pp. 21, 197; J.H. Weeks, Among the Primitive Bakongo, p. 99.
98
See pp. II, 138, 190 (Edition 1891).
99
Totemism and Exogamy, ii. pp. 338, 339.
100
La Cité Antique, p. 254.
101
The Origin of Civilisation, 7th ed. p. 246.
102
W.W. Skeat, Malay Magic, pp. 52, 53.
103
I. p. 253.
104
2nd ed. vol. i. pp. 169, 174. See also Sir E.B. Tylor’s Primitive Culture, i. pp. 282, 286, 295; ii. pp. 170, 181, etc.
105
See also Primitive Culture, i. pp. 119, 121, 412, 413, 514.
106
Messrs. Spencer and Gillan, Native Tribes of Central Australia (London, Macmillan), p. 201.
107
Linguistic Survey of India, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Languages, pp. 40, 41, 45.
108
Linguistic Survey of India, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Languages, pp. 292, 294.
109
Dr. A.H. Keane, The World’s Peoples, London, Hutchinson, 1908, p. 50.
110
Nimār Settlement Report.
111
See also Primitive Culture, i. p. 408.
112
The Oraons, pp. 408, 409.
113
2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 457 et seq.
114
For instances of omens see article Thug and Index. Also Miss Harrison’s Themis, pp. 98, 99.
