Mr.Pyare Lal Misra, barrister, Chhindwara, was my ethnographic clerk for some years, and he and Munshi Kanhya Lal, late of the Educational Department, and Mr.Aduram Chandhri, Tahsildar, gave much assistance in the inquiries on different castes.

Among others who have helped in the work, Rai Bahadur Panda Baijnath, Diwan of the Patna and Bastar States, should be mentioned first, and Babu Kali Prasanna Mukerji, pleader, Saugor, Mr.Gopal Datta Joshi, District Judge, Saugor, Mr.Jeorakhan Lal, Deputy-Inspector of Schools, and Mr.Gokul Prasad, Tahsildar, may be selected from the large number whose names are given in the footnotes to the articles.

Among European officers whose assistance should be acknowledged are Messrs.

C.E.Low, C.W.Montgomerie, A.B.

Napier, A.E.Nelson, A.K.Smith, R.H.Crosthwaite and H.F.Hallifax, of the Civil Service; Lt.-Col.