The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1

by R. V. Russell

[25] See art. Bhunjia.

[26] Linguistic Survey of India, vol. iv., Munda and Dravidian Dialects, p. 102.

[27] Caldwell’s Dravidian Grammar, pp. 123 and 134. Captain Glasfurd says: ‘The termination wār is a Telugu affix signifying person or man’ (Settlement Report of the Upper Godāvari District (1868), p. 26).

[28] This article consists only of extracts from the accounts of Colonel Dalton and Sir H. Risley.

[29] Dalton’s Ethnology of Bengal, pp. 126, 127.

[30] Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Chero.

[31] See also art. Daharia for a discussion of the origin of that caste.

[32] Tribes and Castes, art. Dhālgar.

[33] From a paper by Nārāyan Bohidār, Schoolmaster, Sonpur State.

[34] This article is based on papers by Mr. D.P. Kshirsāgar, Naib-Tahsildar, Buldāna, and Mr. Khāndekar, Headmaster, Nandura.