A History of the Mahrattas v2.c40.37

v2.c40.37

¹ The class of people already described, resembling the Ramoosees of Maharashtra, and improperly called Beders. [See footnote to page 264, vol. i. Bēdar is generally accepted now as the correct name of the tribe, though the term Berad is still in common use in the Southern Marāthā country. The Marāthā spies were handicapped by the fact that Kanarese was, as it is still, the common vernacular of the Belgaum and Dhārwār Districts. The Bēdars are fully described by Thurston, C. and T.S.I., i. 180 ff.]