40. Notes on the Ethnography of the Bashahr State, 
Simla Hills, Punjab. 
By Panpir Tika RAm Josut, some time Private Secretary to the 
Raja of Bashahr ; edited by H. A. Ross, C.8S,, Punjab. 
The se of these notes is to reproduce the substance of 
me notes in the ethnography and folklore of the Bashahr 
State, faci ved from Singhi and Devi Laru, two employés of that 
State. These notes are embodied in Part Part II deals 
with the Kanawar valley, a dependency of Bashabr ‘nd which 
is divided into ppb and Lower Kanawar. Upper Kanawar 
included the pargana of Shuwa and that part of the Inner 
Tukpa pargana alibi lies on the left or south bank of the 
Sutlej ; while Lower Kanawar includes parganas Alharabis, 
Rajgaon, part of oa Inner Tukpa pargana, and part of Pandara- 
pargana lies in the Baspa valley of 
Kanawar, but sitiotly speaking it forms no part of Upper or 
Lower Kanawar. Bhala pargana lies in the Thang valley to- 
wards (s)Piti. The notes in Kanawar are by t Tika Ram 
Joshi, the author of the Kandwari Grammar md Dictonary. 
H. A. Ross. 
mother is also purified after the gontra 
lasts three days among the menial tribes 
The ceremony of feeding the child for the first time is called 
| "Raaely by making gifts to priests and other Brahmans. 
