Volume 4 — Sanaurhia
Reading edition
1. A band of criminals
2. Traditions of origin
3. Methods of stealing
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · This article is based principally on an account of the Sanaurhias written by Mr. C.M. Seagrim, Inspector-General of Police, Indore, and inclNote 2 · Crooke’s Tribes and Castes, art. Sanaurhia.Note 3 · Criminal Classes of Bombay Presidency, pp. 296, 297.Note 4 · Sleeman’s Reports on the Badhaks, p. 327.Note 5 · Mr. Gayer’s Lectures on some Criminal Tribes.Note 6 · Report on the Badhak or Bāgri Dacoits (1849), p. 328.Note 7 · J. Hutton, A Popular Account of the Thugs and Dacoits and Gang-robbers of India (London, 1857).Note 8 · Sanaurhia, Chandravedi.1—A small but well-known community of criminals in Bundelkhand. They claim to be derived from the Sanādhya Brāhmans, Note 9 · Mr. Seagrim3 states that their home is in the Datia State of Bundelkhand, and some of them live in the adjoining Alamgarh tract of Indore StNote 10 · The methods of the Sanaurhias as described by Mr. Seagrim show considerable ingenuity. When they desire to steal something from a stall in aNote 11 · “I have to state that from former times these people following their profession have resided in my territory and in the states of other nati