1. Ramaseeana, vol. II, pp. 155–224. The categorisation of caste and religion is the original one and is of the kind that the British immediately bought into. On the importance of caste in pre-colonial censuses, see Norbert Peabody, ‘Cents, Sense, Census: Human Inventories in Late Precolonial and Early Colonial India’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43, 3 (July 2001): 819–50.
2. J. S. Koliopoulos, Brigands with a Cause: Brigandage and irredentism in modern Greece, 1821–1912 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), p. 239.
3. Thomas D. Broughton, Letters Written in a Mahratta Camp during the year 1809 (London: 1813, reprint New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1995), p. 213. See also Sleeman (1844), vol. I, p. 359.
4. For a different argument see D. E. U. Baker, Colonialism in an Indian Hinterland — The Central Provinces, 1820–1920 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 57–8.
5. James Lunt (ed.), From Sepoy to Subedar, being the Life and Adventures of Subedar Sita Ram, a Native Officer of the Bengal Army written and related by Himself (Lahore, 1873, reprint London: Papermac, 1988), pp. 10–12.