Vol VII, No. 6.] A Vocabulary of the Pasi Boli. 279 
[N.S.] 
Nesfield, J. C., Brief View of the Caste System of the 
N.W.P. and Oudh, Allahabad, 1885. 
G. R. Clarke, 1C.S., The Outcastes (The Maghya Doms). 
Asiatick Researches, Vol. VII, 1801, p. 457 et seq. 
‘¢ An account of the Bazeegars, a sect commonly denominated 
Nuts, by Captain David Richardson.! ’’ 
Lelands, The Gypsies, 1882. 
Prichard, James Combs, Researches into the Physical History 
of Mankind, Vol. I, p. 520, second ed., 1826. 
Criminal Classes in the Bombay Presidency, M. Kennedy, D.1.G. 
Police, Bombay. 
My excuse for introducing the above Bibliography is that 
it may be of use to others interested in the wandering and 
casteless tribes of India. A reference to these authorities, whe- 
ther they be the severe official recorder of facts or the ardent 
‘*ovpsiologist,*’? will show that many, if not all, have suc- 
cumbed to the fascination of discovering linguistic likenesses, an 
perhaps what is nearer the mark, the similarity of purpose be- 
twee 
gypsy tribes. Although these recognized Gypsy tribes of India 
are not by any means bound by such ties as a common argot, it 
is in this connection that the Bibliography might be appreciated. 
Most of the authorities quoted give vocabularies of various 
secret and slang languages, and there are certainly many 
instances to be found of the resemblance of words ; for example 
between the collection ot Nut words by Capt. D. Richardson 100 
years ago, and the Baoris cant given by Mr. Gayer in his lectures 
9? 
argots, so that for purposes of ordinary conversation the 
code is maintained by an amalgamation with local dialects, 
such as Punjabi, Jdat-ki-gal, Hindi or Marwari. Iam informe 
by members of the clan themselves that the code is used even 
with Guzerat: verbs as the medium. 
he Kunchbandiya, and in fact all sections of Kanjars, 
y, and for this purpose are 
divided up into exogamous septs, mostly totemistic ; and a 
case of a girl of a sept or sub-section from near Poona (Guzerati) 
marrying into a Kanjar “ camp’’ at Karnal came under my 
observation. From such alliances—which are not at all un- 
common—between parties from districts hundreds of miles apart, 
1 Capt. D. Richardson, who gives an interesting vocabulary of 
‘‘ Bengal Bazeegars or Nuts,’’ back-siang, states that ‘‘the Awnjurds 
are no other than those Bazeegars or Nuts who inhabit the Upper 
Provinces of Hindustan.”’ 
