Gonds

-- The Gonds are the most important of the non-Aryan or primitive tribes, and their social customs are described in detail.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

Many of them have a better type of countenance than the Gonds, which is perhaps due to an infusion of

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

The people in these hills are called Gonds, a true hill tribe -- that is to say, aborigines, somewhat of the negro type.

Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril 1867

The people in these hills are called Gonds, a true hill tribe -- that is to say, aborigines, somewhat of the negro type.

Tales of Daring and Danger 1867

He also notes how the tribal groups such as Bhils of western India, the Gonds and Oraon of central India claim to be a caste through the process of Sanskritisation and thus claim a place in the caste hierarchy.

The sociological concept of Sanskritization in India India 2009

After the first immense success of the Maoists among the Gonds of Adilabad district in the late 1970s and early 1980s, from the next generation that came of age in the1990s one often heard the honest query: are adivasis the guinea pigs of revolution?

Archive 2006-08-01 Abhay N 2006

The capital at Gulbarga and many other fortresses were built or strengthened with European science, to serve against Gujarat, Malwa, and Khandesh in the northwest, the Gonds, Orissa, and Telingana in the northeast; and Vijayanagar in the south.

1337-38 2001

The Agarias say that they do not admit outsiders into the caste, but Gonds, Kawars and Ahirs are occasionally allowed to enter it.

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

Rawats and Gonds take food from their hands in some places, and their social status in Chhattisgarh is about equivalent to that of the Rawats or Ahirs.

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

They numbered 33,000 persons in 1891, and in subsequent enumerations have been amalgamated with the Gonds.

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