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BAGHL.

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number of speakers of these Broken Dialects of the West and where they are spoken. For further information regarding them the reader is referred to pp. 132 and ff.

Name of broken dialect.	Where spoken.	Number of speakers.
Tirhr...	Fatehpur...	197,700
	Banda...	25,000
	Hamirpur...	3,000
		---------	225,700
So-called Bundl..	Banda...		236,200
Gahr...	" ...		243,400
Jar...	" ...		114,500
Banphar...	Hamirpur...		5,000
TOTAL.			824,800

　The Broken Dialects of the South are spoken in the District of Mandla, and in those adjoining, by various tribes. They also are based upon Baghl, but are more or less mixed with Marh and Bundl. They differ from the Broken Dialects of the West in not being the dialects of any specific locality. On the contrary, they are peculiar to certain tribes who speak them, while the language of the bulk of the population of the locality in which these tribes live is something altogether different. The following table shows the number of speakers of these broken dialects of the south and where each is spoken:-

Name of broken dialect.	District where spoken.	Number of speakers.
Marr...	Mandla...		52,700
Pwr...	Balaghat...	41,300
	Bhandara...	1,700	43,000
Kumbhr...	" ...		30
jh...	Chhindwara...		100
TOTAL.			95,830

　For reasons the same as those given in the case of Awadh, it is impossible to estimate the number of speakers of Baghl elsewhere, outside the area in which the dialect is a vernacular. The following figures are therefore the only ones available:-

Number of speakers of Baghl at home...			3,692,126
"	Broken	Dialects of the West...	824,800
"	"	Dialects of the South...	95,830
TOTAL.			4,612,756

　Baghelkhand has not been rendered famous by any great writer, though the Mah- rjas of Rewa have long been renowned for the favour shown by them to Iiterature. Mahrja Rm Chand Singh's court was for a time adorned by the well-known singer and poet Tn Sn, till he was called to the Emperor Akbar's capital in the year 1563. Mahrja Nja Rm is said to have given the poet Hari-nth, who flourished in 1587, a lkh of rupees for a single verse. Mahrja Biswa-nth Singh, who reigned 1813-1834, not only main- tained the traditional liberality of his family, but was an author himself. He wrote under the nom de plume of 'Sigh Baghl,' and amongst his works may be mentioned a play entitled the nand Raghunandan, and an esteemed commentary on the

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