Council.*

PRESENT:

1. The Hon'ble Mr. C. E. A. W. Oldham, I.C.S.,
Vice-President, in the Chair.

2. Nawab Shams-ul-'Ulama Saiyid Imdad Imam.
3. K. P. Jayaswal, Esq., M.A., Bar.-at-Law.
4. Professor J. N. Sarkar, M.A.

5. Professor J. N. Samaddar, B.A.

6. Babu S. C. Roy, M.A., B.L.

(1) The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. (2) Pending applications for membership were considered, and 1 Life member and 12 Ordinary members were duly elected Their names were noted below:

LIFE MEMBER.

1. Maharaja Bahadur Keshava Prashad Singh of Dum

raon.

ORDINARY MEMBERS.

1. D. N. Sen, Esq., M.A., Principal, B. N. College, Bankipore.

2. Babu Amareswar Thakur, M.A., Professor, B. N. College, Bankipore.

3. Mr. Muazzam Ali, Bar.-at-Law, Bankipore.

4. Pandit Dwaraka Prasad Pathak, Vakil, Bankipore.
5. Mr. G. C. Wolfe, " Kelso ", Dalhousie (Punjab).
6. Babu Hari Nath Ghosh, B. L., Pleader, Purulia
(Manbhum).

• Held on Saturday, the 8th April 1916, at the Commissioner's House at Bankipore.

7. Sri Lakshmi Narayan Deb, Jubaraj of Tekkali (District Ganjam).

8. Mr. G. W. Place, 1.c.s. (Retired), 9, Ailesbury Road, Dublin (Ireland).

9. M. Masud Raza, Madhipura (District Bhagalpore). 10. Babu Harsa Prasad Singh, Honorary Magistrate, Arrah.

11. Babu Nares Chandra Sinha, M.A., B.L., Vakil, High Court, Patna, Bankipore.

12. Dr. Sheo Nandan Tewari, D.P.H., Deputy Sanitary

Commissioner, Bankipore.

(3) Considered the estimates received from different presses, for the cost of printing the Journal, and resolved that the Journal continue to be printed at the Gulzarbagh Government Press.

(4) Read a letter from Raja Kamaleshvari Prasad Singh of Monghyr, dated the 17th March 1916, forwarding a sum of Rs. 5,000 as a "donation in aid of the work the Society is doing". Resolved that the very cordial thanks of the Council be conveyed to the Raja Sahib for his munificent donation towards the work of the Society.

Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, Bihar and Orissa.

OF THE

BIHAR AND ORISSA RESEARCH SOCIETY

For the year 1916,

Patron.

His Honour Sir Edward Albert Gait, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S.
Vice-Patrons.

The Hon'ble Sir Edward Vere Levinge, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., I.C.S.

The Hon'ble Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent, Kt., I.C.S.'

The Hon'ble Maharaja Bahadur Sir Rameswar Singh, G.C.I.E., of Darbhanga.

The Hon'ble Maharaja Bahadur Sir Ravaneswar Prasad Singh, K.C.I.E., of Gidhaur.

Maharaja Bir Mitradaya Singh Deo of Sonepur State.

President.

His Honour Sir Edward Albert Gait, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., I.C.S.

Secretaries for History Section-K. P.Jayaswal, Esq., M.A., Bar.-atLaw, and Professor J. N. Samaddar, B.A.

Secretary for Archæology and Numismatics-D. B. Spooner, Esq., B.A., Ph.D.

Secretary for Anthropology and Folk-lore-Babu S. C. Roy, M.A., B.L. Secretaries for Philology-Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Hara Prasad Shastri, M.A., C.I.E., and Nawab Shams-ul-'Ulama Saiyid Imdad Imam.

(Continued on page 3 of cover.)

OF THE

BIHAR AND ORISSA
RESEARCH SOCIETY.

VOL. II.]

[PART III.

LEADING AR TICLES.

I.-Some Remarks on the Position of Women among the Santals.

By Rev. P. O. Bodding.

My old friend the Hon'ble Dr. A. Campbell in the first part of the Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society published an interesting paper on the laws of inheritance and partition among the Santāls.

I have no doubt as to his statements being correct so far as the Santals of Manbhum are concerned. On one or two points there is, however, apparently some difference in the customary laws as practised in the Santal Parganas (where the bulk of the Santal population at present lives) and in Manbhum, as will appear from the following:

The Santals in the Santal Parganas are apparently a little more advanced than their Manbhum brethren, especially with regard to the treatment of their women.

The original and, I might say, even now often theoretically accepted idea of woman among the Santāls seems to be, that she