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DRAVIDIAN FAMILY.

　The Bharis are found in Narsinghpur and Chhindwara. In the latter district, however, the tribe is dying out, and no speakers have been returned at the last Census of 1901. Their number in Narsinghpur was estimated for this Survey at 330. At the last Census of 1901, 563 speakers have been returned.

AUTHORITY-

　SCANLAN, C.,-Notes on the Bharias. Indian Antiquary, Vol. i, 1872, pp. 159 and f.

　The Bharis have probably once spoken a form of G. The pronoun hr, he, is probably identical with G r, he. Their dialect is, however, now a corrupt Bundl.

　Of the specimens which follow the first has been forwarded from Narsinghpur and the second from Chhindwara.