Kol people
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Kol (people)
)The Kol people referred to a group of tribal communities of Chotanagpur in eastern parts of India. Historically, the
It also refers to some tribes and castes of south-east
Baghelkhandi dialect.[4] Around 1 million lives in Madhya Pradesh while another 5 lakh lives in Uttar Pradesh
.
Once spelled "Kole", the swaths of land they inhabited in the 19th-century were called "Kolean".[3]
Etymology
Kol was generic term for non-Aryan people in Chotanagpur such as Oraon and Munda. The term Kola mentioned in
Chola. According to Markandeya Purana
, the Aryan princess Suratha was defeated by some unclean tribe called Kolabidhansinah means slayer of Pig.
History
Colonel
Oraon. Although, Oraon and Munda celebrate same festivals, but they don't intermarry among themselves.[5]
[6]
Later, Colonel Dalton classified
Dravidian and Munda, along with other Kols such as Ho, Bhumij as Kolarian after observing their customs and traditions which were distinct.[7]
References
- JSTOR 44145239. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ "Kols in UP: A life without rights". thehindu. 4 December 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ a b Edward Balfour, ed. (1862). The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia. p. 537.
- ISBN 9781351741316.
- ^ Sanjay Nath (2015). "Pages from the Old Records: A Note on 'The "Kols" of Chota-Nagpore' by E.T. Dalton". Journal of Adivasi and Indigenous Studies.
- ^ Edward Balfour (1885). The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Volume 2. Akademische Druck-u. Verlagsanstal.
- ^ Jagdish Chandra Jha (1933). "Kol Insurrection Of Chota-nagpur". Nagendra Mishra,Thacker, Spink & Co., (1933) Private Ltd. p. 23. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
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