[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.