[Bibliography.--The most important account of the Gond tribe is that
contained in the Rev. Stephen Hislop's Papers on the Aboriginal
Tribes of the Central Provinces, published after his death by
Sir R. Temple in 1866. Mr. Hislop recorded the legend of Lingo,
of which an abstract has been reproduced. Other notices of the
Gonds are contained in the ninth volume of General Cunningham's
Archaeological Survey Reports, Sir C. Grant's Central Provinces
Gazetteer of 1871 (Introduction), Colonel Ward's Mandla Settlement
Report (1868), Colonel Lucie Smith's Chanda Settlement Report
(1870), and Mr. C. W. Montgomerie's Chhindwara Settlement Report
(1900). An excellent monograph on the Bastar Gonds was contributed
by Rai Bahadur Panda Baijnath, Superintendent of the State, and
other monographs by Mr. A. E. Nelson, C.S., Mandla; Mr. Ganga Prasad
Khatri, Forest Divisional Officer, Betul; Mr. J. Langhorne, Manager,
Ahiri zamindari, Chanda; Mr. R. S. Thakur, tahsildar, Balaghat; and
Mr. Din Dayal, Deputy Inspector of Schools, Nandgaon State. Papers were
also furnished by the Rev. A. Wood of Chanda; the Rev. H. J. Molony,
Mandla; and Major W. D. Sutherland, I.M.S., Saugor. Notes were also
collected by the writer in Mandla. Owing to the inclusion of many
small details from the different papers it has not been possible to
acknowledge them separately.]