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[15] _Ind. Ant._ (Jan. 1911), 'Foreign Elements in the Hindu Population,' by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar.

[16] Elliot, _Supplemental Glossary_, _s.v._ Ahir.

[17] _Early History of India_, 3rd ed. p. 286.

[18] Elliot, _ibidem._

[19] _Bombay Monograph on Ahir._

[20] Elliot, _ibidem._

[21] _Central Provinces Gazetteer_ (1871), Introduction.

[22] _Linguistic Survey of India_, vol. ix. part ii. p. 50.

[23] _Bombay Ethnographic Survey._

[24] Quoted in _Tribes and Castes of Bengal_, art. Goala.

[25] _Rajasthan_, ii. p. 639.

[26] Gokul was the place where Krishna was brought up, and the Gokulastha Gosains are his special devotees.

[27] _Behind the Bungalow._

[28] _Eastern India_, ii. p. 467.

[29] Buchanan, _Eastern India_, ii. pp. 924, 943.

[30] This article is mainly based on a paper by Mr. W. S. Slaney, E.A.C., Akola.

[31] _Berar Census Report_ (1881).

[32] _Tribes and Castes_, art. Arakh.

[33] _Caja.n.u.s indicus._

[34] _Berar Census Report_ (1881), p. 157.

[35] Based on papers by Mr. Bijai Bahadur Royzada, Naib-Tahsildar Hinganghat, and Muns.h.i.+ Kanhya Lal of the Gazetteer office.

[36] A preparation of raisins and other fruits and rice.

[37] The ordinary tola is a rupee weight or two-fifths of an ounce.

[38] _Jasminum zambac._

[39] _Michelia champaca._

[40] _Phyllanthus emblica._

[41] _Report on the Badhak or Bagri Dacoits and the Measures adopted by the Government of India for their Suppression_, printed in 1849.

[42] Sleeman, p. 10.

[43] Sleeman, p. 10.

[44] Sleeman, p. 57.

[45] Sleeman, p. 95.

[46] Sleeman, p. 231.

[47] Sleeman, p. 217.

[48] Sleeman, p. 20.

[49] Sleeman, p. 21.

[50] Sleeman, p. 81.

[51] Sleeman, p. 82.

[52] Sleeman, p. 152.

[53] Sleeman, p. 127. This pa.s.sage is from a letter written by a magistrate, Mr. Ramsay.

[54] Sleeman, p. 129.

[55] Sleeman, p. 112.

[56] Sleeman, p. 124.

[57] Sleeman, p. 125.

[58] Sleeman, p. 147.

[59] Sleeman, p. 104.

[60] Sleeman, p. 110.

[61] Sleeman, p. 131.

[62] Sleeman, p. 205.

[63] Sleeman, p. 106.

[64] Malcolm's _Memoir of Central India_, ii. p. 479.