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KOTAS (Kotar, Koter, Kohatur, Gauhatar)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 919 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOTAS (Kotar, Koter, Kohatur, Gauhatar)  , an aboriginal tribe of the Nilgiri hills, India . They are a well-made
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people, of good features, tall, and of a dull copper colour, but some of them are among the fairest of the hill tribes . They recognize no caste among themselves, but are divided into keris (streets), and a man must marry outside his keri . Their villages (of which there are seven) are large, averaging from
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thirty to sixty huts . They are agriculturists and herdsmen, and the only one of the hill tribes who practise
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industrial arts, being excellent as carpenters, smiths, tanners and
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basket-makers . They do
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menial
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work for the
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Todas, to whom they pay a tribute . They worship ideal gods, which are not represented by any images . Their language is an old and rude dialect of
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Kanarese . In 1901 they numbered 1267 .

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