^{page 499 note 1}This article is based on fieldwork carried out intermittently between the years 1941 and 1953. My last stay among the Raj Gonds of Adilabad was greatly facilitated by a generous grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

^{page 499 note 2}cf. Marriot, McKim (ed.), Village India, Chicago, 1955,Google Scholar and Srinivas, M.N. (ed.), Indian villages, Calcutta, 1955.Google Scholar

^{page 499 note 3}The Raj Gonds of Adilabad : a peasant culture of the Deccan. (The Aboriginal Tribes of Hyderabad, Vol. III, Book i, Myth and ritual.) London, Macmillan, 1948.Google Scholar

^{page 500 note 1}cf. Buradkar, M.P., ‘The clan organization of the Gonds’, Man in India, XXVII, 1947, 130–6.Google Scholar

^{page 502 note 1}cf. von Fürer-Haimendorf, C., ‘The Pardhans : the bards of the Raj Gonds’, Eastern Anthropologist, IV, 1951, 172–84.Google Scholar

^{page 502 note 2}cf. The Raj Gonds, 220–6.

^{page 503 note 1}Political systems of highland Burma, London, 1954, 128,Google Scholar 129.

^{page 503 note 2}Katora is a term exclusively applied to the priest of a clan or sub-elan (the term for village priest is devari); patla, a Gondi corruption of patel, on the other hand, is a term applied not only to village headmen, but also to other men of dignity and high status; kutma is a term derived from kutum, a group of agnatic kinsmen.

^{page 504 note 1}Khandan is an Urdu word meaning literally ‘family’ or ‘lineage’. No Gondi term seems to exist for such a sub-division of a pari.

^{page 509 note 1}cf. Elwin, Verrier, The Muria and their ghotul, Bombay, 1947, 59.Google Scholar