[1] This article is compiled partly from Colonel Dalton’s Ethnology of Bengal and Sir H. Risley’s Tribes and Castes of Bengal; a monograph has also been furnished by Mr. B. C. Mazumdār, pleader, Sambalpur, and papers by Mr. A. B. Napier, Deputy Commissioner, Raipur, and Mr. Hīra Lāl.
[2] Ethnology of Bengal, p. 140.
[3] Linguistic Survey, vol. xiv. Munda and Dravidian Languages, p. 217.
[4] Page 142.
[5] Ibidem, p. 141.
[6] In the article on Binjhwār, it was supposed that the Baigas migrated east from the Satpūra hills into Chhattīsgarh. But the evidence adduced above appears to show that this view is incorrect.
[7] Tribes and Castes, art. Binjhia.
[8] Crooke, Tribes and Castes, art. Bhuiya, para. 4.
[9] Ibidem, para. 3.
[10] Ibidem, art. Bhuiyār, para. 1.