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perhaps have been derived from some old Prakritee dialect 
now obsolete. Some of the words, however, seem to have 
no connection whatever with any of the tongues now written 
or spoken in India.”’ ; 
Mr. Nesfield’s vocabulary consists of eighteen words, all 
of which are confirmed in the collection I have made— 
with one exception, and that is the word ‘ Wife’ the Kanjar 
for which Mr. Nesfield gives as gihdri. Now I have particularly 
referred to the sub-section of Kanjars who call themselves 
Gehdrds. ‘The feminine for Gehdra is of course Gehari, and the 
wife of a Gehdrd or for that matter any woman of the 
tribe would be called Gehdri—just as we have the feminine 
for Jat as Jatni Rajput, Rajputni, or Chokrd a boy, chokri a 
girl, and soon. Gihdri therefore is only ‘‘ the wife of a Gehdra,”’ 
and is not the common word for ‘‘wife.’’ I venture to 
emphasize this point as it is largely from the Gehdrd Kanjars 
the rigors of the Criminal Tribes Act, that these several 
families first openly declared themselves to be Gehdrds and not 
jars. ave not come across Gehdrd as either 
written previous to 1883, and the conclusion is that Gehdrd is a 
secret tribal name, which it has only recently been found con- 
venient to divulge. 
