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³ Ibid., p. 135—G. 588. This and such other punishments to disgrace the man in the eye of the public have been resorted to throughout history. Megasthenes mentions cropping of the hair as a punishment. Fragment, xxvii. They are still practised. On these methods of punishment and disgrace, see Kalipada Mitra, J.B.O.R.S., xx, pp. 80-6, who treats the subject from a folklorist's point of view. That such practices persist even to-day is proved by some incidents witnessed by the above writer.