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

by R. V. Russell

[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.