[1] This article is based on papers by Mr. Mahfuz Ali, tahsīldār, Rājnand-gaon, Mr. Jowāhir Singh, Settlement Superintendent, Sambalpur, and Mr. Adurām Chaudhri of the Gazetteer Office.
[2] Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Kaibartta.
[3] Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Kewat.
[4] Tribes and Castes of Bengal, ibidem.
[5] A curved stick carried across the shoulders, from which are suspended two panniers.
KHAIRWĀR
[Authorities: Colonel Dalton’s Ethnology of Bengal; Sir H. Risley’s Tribes and Castes of Bengal; Mr. Crooke’s Tribes and Castes of the N.-W.P. and Oudh.]