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8.) 
Call out, in reference to a 
hank or ‘‘ beat ’’ when Lalled 
hunting and driving a cote 
jungle for game 
Oh mother! expressive of sur- 
prise or disgust, an appeal 
to their Deity iyd ! 
who is also called Mérani or Maharani 
s vagrant race of people, or shall we say certain 
vagrant races of people, we call Gypsy in England,—a_ cor- 
(Tinker) or Caird in Scotland, Gitana in Spain, Zigeuner in 
Germany, Zingari in Italy, Kanjar in India, and so on. A 
are called in France,—a comparison of their nomadic, and oc- 
casionally predatory, habits all temptingly point to their 
identity. In addition we find all these people have a phrase- 
ology of their own, call it what we may, back-slang or cant 
or jargon or gibberish. An investigation will show that none 
codes and vocabularies of Indian Gypsies, of which there are a 
large number of reliable collections, and to which reference 
has already been made. ae 
And finally we have the remarkable linguistic similitude 
as may be clearly demonstrated from a comparison of any 
Romanes vocabulary and colloquial H ndustant of to-day. 
There are two words in my Kanjar vocabulary to which 
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having no outward resemblance to Hindustani equivalents, 
1 See Bengal Census Report, 1872, p. 158, for a complete refutation 
of this theory. 
