[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.]
1. Numbers and distribution. 2. Gondwana. 3. Derivation of name and origin of the Gonds. 4. History of the Gonds. 5. Mythical traditions. Story of Lingo. 6. Legend of the creation. 7. Creation of the Gonds and their imprisonment by Mahadeo. 8. The birth and history of Lingo. 9. Death and resurrection of Lingo. 10. He releases the Gonds shut up in the cave and constitutes the tribe.
11. Subcastes. 12. Exogamy. 13. Totemism. 14. Connection of totemism with the gods.
15. Prohibitions on intermarriage, and unions of relations. 16. Irregular marriages. 17. Marriage. Arrangement of matches. 18. The marriage ceremony. 19. Wedding expenditure. 20. Special customs. 21. Taking omens. 22. Marriage by capture. Weeping and hiding. 23. Serving for a wife. 24. Widow remarriage. 25. Divorce. 26. Polygamy.
27. Menstruation. 28. Superstitions about pregnancy and childbirth. 29. Procedure at a birth. 30. Names. 31. Superstitions about children.