Mundas

It is essentially a tribal territory with mainly four communities - Mundas, Hojans, Santhals and Oraons - but as many as 30 distinct tribes engage in self-reliant and equitable agricultural occupation.

Archive 2006-07-01 Abhay N 2006

He notes further that the ceremony of naming children among the Bhuiyas is identical with that of the Mundas and

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Sindhavas and the Jagudas and the Ramathas and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the Tanganas and the Kekayas and the Malavas and the inhabitants of Kasmira, afraid of the prowess of your weapons, present in obedience to your invitation, performing various offices, -- that prosperity, O king, so unstable and waiting at present on the foe, I shall restore to thee, depriving thy foe of his very life.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Chinas and Tukharas and the Sindhavas and the Jagudas and the Ramathas and the Mundas and the inhabitants of the kingdom of women and the

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

Mundas, and the Kaundivrishas, with Vrithadvala, were stationed on the left wing.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

The sept names also differ in different localities; the Birjhia subtribe who live in the same country as the Mundas have several Munda names among their septs, as Munna, Son, Solai; while the Binjhwars who are neighbours of the Gonds have Gond sept names, as Tekam, Sonwani, and others.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Similarly, among the Hos or Mundas the suicide of young married women is or was extremely common, and the usual motive was that the girl, being unhappy in her husband's house, jumped down a well or otherwise made away with herself in the belief that she would take revenge on his family by haunting them after her death.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Like the Mundas and Hos and other representatives of the race, they are jovial in character, fond of their rice beer, and ready to take a joke.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

Several tribes, as the Gonds and Mundas, have a legend that their earliest king was born of poor parents, and that one day his mother, having left the child under some tree while she went to her work, returned to find a cobra spreading its hood over him.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

The Hos or Larka Hos who form the bulk of the inhabitants are a branch of the Mundas of the Chota Nagpur Plateau.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas