[1] This article is mainly based on notes taken by Rai Bahādur Hīra Lāl at Raigarh, with extracts from Colonel Dalton’s and Sir H. Risley’s accounts of the tribe.

[2] Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Kharia.

[3] Saccharum spontaneum. This grass infests cultivated fields and is very difficult to eradicate.

[4] Melia indica.

[5] Ethnology of Bengal.

[6] Jungle Life in India, p. 89.

[7] Linguistic Survey, vol. iv. Munda and Dravidian Languages, p. 22.

[8] Ibidem, p. 129.