23. A Vocabulary of the Pasi Boli! or Argot of the 
Kunchbandiya® Kanjars.® 
By W. Kirkpatrick, 
_ The Kunchbandiya Kanjars are at the present day a non- 
criminal section of the vagrant tribes of a Gipsy character 
known all over India by the generic name of Kanjar. 
BreLioGRaPHy.* 
Lord Curzon’s Persia, Vol. I, p. 225 et sq. 
Sir Herbert Risley’s Tribes and Castes of Bengal, Vol. I, 
p- 419, Kanjars. 
Sherring’s Hindu Tribes and Castes, Vol. I, p. 389, for Kanjars. 
Do. do. do. for Sansias, Vol. II, p. 122. 
Do. do. do. for Kanjars, Vol. II, p. 155, 
Do. do. do. for Yarakhala Sansias, Vol. 
II 137 
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for Siakali Lambadi, Vol. ITI, 
38 
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Do. do. do. 
p- : 
Col. Barr’s Wandering Tribes of Kathiawar. 
Balfour’s Cyclopedia of India and Eastern and 8. Asia, Vol. 
IIT, p. 74, for Kaniars. 
Do. do. do. for Sansias, Vol. I, p. 131. 
1 This secret code or language Kanjars themselves call Pasi Boli, 
tr. Gayer in his Lecture on the Sansi and Beria says, ‘‘ In speaking 
before others they employed Hindustani but among themselves they 
Spoke a Marwari dialect, or a tribal dialect which they themselves 
called Parsi (sic)’’; see note on the Chandramedis 
fraternity of criminals, in Appendix to Mr. Ken al 
es in Bombay,’’—they have ‘‘a secret code vocabulary called 
parsi.’’ In the way the word was always pronounced to me the ‘‘r 
was absent, i.e. pdsr.— W. K, 
i.e. m s of brushes; from Kinch the brush used by weavers 
for cleaning the warp threads, and bd dind to tie. 
. 3 Mr. Crooke gives ivati 
im the sense of a wanderer in the jungle; . 
derivation of Romnichal &gi0y = Ramnd ‘* a park, plain or champagne, 
po chal Ux ‘rover, wanderer, endured ] sears oe 
Stymology is t ite as convincing and more pictur _Mr. 
Nesfield’s article i Galoatta Review, Vol. LXXVII Sir Herbert Risley 
in “* Tribes and Castes o ’* disposes of the Kanjar with the ollow- 
Ing description: ‘* Khangor, Kanjar, agypsy caste of the North-West 
in eat snakes, and make strings of 
twisters.”’ 
r Herbert Risley. 
