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

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.

127

From Mr. C. Brown’s notes.

128

C.P. Police Gazette.

129

Kitts, l.c.

130

Ibidem.

131

Stated by Mr. C. Brown.

132

Vol. ii. p. 237.

133

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii. p. 175.

134

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

135

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

136

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xi p. 73.

137

Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xi. p. 73.

138

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

139

Nāgpur Settlement Report (1899), p. 29.

140

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

141

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

142

Ethnology of Bengal, p. 326.

143

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.

144

Crooke, art Majhwār, para. 1.

145

Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Mānjhi.

146

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

147

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

148

Ibidem, para. 54.

149

Ficus glomerata.

150

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