KURUMBAS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 954
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
KURUMBAS
and KURUBAS, aboriginal tribes of southern India, by some thought to be of distinct races
.
There are two types of Kurumbas, those who live on the Nilgiri plateau, speak the Kurumba dialect and are mere savages; and those who live in 'the plains, speak Kanarese and are civilized
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The former are a 'small people, with wild matted hair and scanty See also: - BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
, sickly-looking, pot-bellied, large-mouthed, with projecting jaws,prominent teeth and thick lips
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Their villages are called motias, groups of four or five huts, built in mountain glens or forests
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At the 1901 census the numbers were returned at 4083
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See See also: - JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
W
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Breeks, An Account of Primitive Tribes of the Nilgiris (1873) ; Dr John Shortt, See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Ranges of Southern India, pt. i
.
47–53; Rev
.
F
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Metz, Tribes Inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills ( Mangalore, 1864)
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