Identifier: nativesofnorther00croo (find matches)
Title: Natives of northern India
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crooke, William, 1848-1923
Subjects: Ethnology -- India India -- Social conditions India -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. Constable and Company, ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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finally assured. It is only in the plateau of Chota Nagpur thatthe Dravidians have resisted Hindu influence of thiskind. As examples of such tribes we may take theOraons, Kols, and Santals, who have been fully de-scribed by Colonel Dalton, Sir W. Hunter, and Messrs.Bartley-Birt and Risley. The Oraons, whose name is probably derived fromthe Dravidian horo, man, which under other formsgives a title to the Hos and Kols, are apparently theearliest settlers in the plateau which they now occupy.Their colour is the darkest brown, approaching black ;the hair jet black,coarse, and rather inclined to be frizzly. Projecting jaws and teeth, thick lips, low narrowforeheads, broad flat noses, are the features, accordingto Mr. Risley, * which strike a careful observer ascharacteristic of the tribe. The eyes are often brightand full, and no obliquity is observable in the openingof the eyelids. No signs of Mongolian affinities canbe detected in the relative positions of the malar andnasal bones. No. Q
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Manjhi Cultivators, Southern Hills, with Sacred Drum (p. 21) TRIBES OF THE SOUTHERN HILLS jj They must be classed, therefore, as pure-bloodedDravidians, and though living in a country where theMunda, or as it used to be called the Kolarian speech,is used, they preserve the Dravidian Kurukh dialectalmost unchanged. In their dress they attach par-ticular importance to the girdle of cord or cane fibre,which is now of no practical use, but represents a sur-vival of a more primitive costume, like that of theJuangs, a kindred tribe, who employ it to support thefig-leaf which constitutes their wardrobe. Their marriage customs are most primitive. Theyouths, like those of the Nagas, are supposed to sleepin a bachelors hall ; but the intercourse of the sexesis practically unrestricted, ante-nuptial connectionsare the rule rather than the exception, and marriage,as they understand the term, is equivalent to cohabita-tion. To call this state of things immoral, says Mr.Risley, is to apply a modern

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