the utter degradation imposed by Hinduism. Both views may have some truth. As regards the legends themselves, it is highly improbable that Sheikh Farid, a well-known saint of northern India, can ever have been within several hundred miles of either of the places with which they connect him.
127
From Mr. C. Brown’s notes.
131
Stated by Mr. C. Brown.
133
Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii. p. 175.
134
Rev. A. Taylor in Bombay Gazetteer, Gujarāt Hindus, p. 341 f.
135
The following passage is taken from Forbes, Rāsmāla, i. p. 112.
136
Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xi p. 73.
137
Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xi. p. 73.
138
Grant Duff; History of the Marāthas, vol. i. p. 24.
139
Nāgpur Settlement Report (1899), p. 29.
140
This article consists of extracts from Sir H. Risley’s account of the caste in the Tribes and Castes of Bengal.
141
See lists of exogamous septs of Mahli, Sandāl, Munda and Puri in Appendix to Tribes and Castes cf Bengal.
142
Ethnology of Bengal, p. 326.
143
This article is based on papers by Mr. Hīra Lāl and Suraj Baksh Singh, Assistant Superintendent, Udaipur State, with references to Mr. Crooke’s exhaustive article on the Majhwārs in his Tribes and Castes.
144
Crooke, art Majhwār, para. 1.
145
Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Mānjhi.
146
Crooke, Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Mānjhi, para. 4.
147
Crooke, Tribes and Castes of Bengal, art. Mānjhi, para. 63.
150
Based entirely on Colonel Dalton’s account in the Ethnology of Bengal, and Sir H. Risley’s in the Tribes and Castes of Bengal.
