[1] Based principally on Mr. Crooke’s article on the caste in his Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh.
[2] Quoted in Mr. Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, art. Bhar.
[3] Art. Pāsi, para. 3.
[4] Art. Bhar, para. 4.
[5] A pulse of a black colour (Phaseolus radiatus).
[6] These sentences are taken from Dr. Grierson’s Peasant Life in Behār, p. 79.
[7] Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Pāsi.
[8] The following passage is taken from Mr. Crooke’s article on Pāsi, and includes quotations from the Sitāpur and Hardoi Settlement Reports.
[9] Lectures on Criminal Tribes of the Central Provinces.