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[403] See also article Ahir.
[404] Kabirpanthi, Nanakpanthi, Dadupanthi, Swami-Narayan, etc.
[405] This article is based on Professor Wilson's _Hindu Sects_, M. Chevrillon's _Romantic India_, and some notes collected by Muns.h.i.+ Kanhya Lal of the Gazetteer Office.
[406] _Dhatura alba_, a plant sacred to Siva, whose seed is a powerful narcotic, and is used to poison travellers.
[407] This article consists entirely of extracts from the article on the Wahhabi sect in the Rev. T. P. Hughes' _Dictionary of Islam_.
[408] Irvine, _Army of the Mughals_, p. 198.
[409] Irvine, _Army of the Mughals_, p. 232.
[410] _Summary of the Maratha and Pindari Campaigns_, p. 264.
[411] _Bombay Gazetteer_, vol. ix. part ii. p. 16.
[412] _Madras Census Report_ (1891), p. 221.
[413] _Punjab Census Report_ (1881), para. 543.
[414] _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 128.
[415] _Punjab Census Report_ (1881), para. 529.
[416] Khan Bahadur Lutfullah Faridi in _Bombay Gazetteer_, _Muh. Guj._
[417] _Berar Census Report_, _ibidem_.
[418] In 1911 about 3000 persons belonging to the caste were returned, mainly from Bilaspur District, and the Korea and Sarguja States.
[419] Crooke, vol. i. p. 184.
[420] _Eastern India_, ii. p. 467.
[421] _North-West Provinces Gazetteer_, vol. xiv., Mirzapur, p. 365.
[422] _Ethnographic Notes in Southern India_, page 72.
[423] This article consists of extracts from Mr. Crooke's account of the caste in his _Tribes and Castes_.
[424] _Eastern India_, ii. 248.
[425] _Punjab Census Report_ (1881), para. 542.
[426] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Bhatia.
[427] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 292.
[428] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Bind.
[429] _Tribes and Castes of the N.W.P. and Oudh_, art. Bind.
[430] _Bauhinia scandens._
[431] _Ethnology of Bengal._ pp. 158, 221.
[432] See art. Bhunjia.
[433] _Linguistic Survey of India,_ vol. iv., _Munda and Dravidian Dialects,_ p. 102.
[434] Caldwell's _Dravidian Grammar_, pp. 123 and 134. Captain Glasfurd says: 'The termination _war_ is a Telugu affix signifying person or man' (_Settlement Report of the Upper G.o.davari District_ (1868), p. 26).
[435] This article consists only of extracts from the accounts of Colonel Dalton and Sir H. Risley.
[436] Dalton's _Ethnology of Bengal_, pp. 126, 127.
[437] _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Chero.
[438] See also art. Daharia for a discussion of the origin of that caste.
[439] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Dhalgar.
[440] From a paper by Narayan Bohidar, Schoolmaster, Sonpur State.
[441] This article is based on papers by Mr. D.P. Ks.h.i.+rsagar, Naib-Tahsildar, Buldana, and Mr. Khandekar, Headmaster, Nandura.
[442] _Madras Census Report_ (1901), p. 149.
[443] _Bhandara Settlement Report_ (Mr. A.B. Napier), p. 8.
[444] _Criminal Tribes of the C.P._, p. 61.
[445] Buchanan, i. p. 331.
[446] _B.G. Muh. Guj_., p. 84.
[447] This article is based on information collected by Mr. Hira Lai in Betul.
[448] Art. Dom. in _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, and of the _North-Western Provinces and Oudh_.
[449] See article Are.
[450] _Thana Gazetteer_, pp. 119, 120.
[451] _Sholapur Gazetteer_, p. 158.
[452] _Madras Census Report_ (1891), p. 238.
