Kolarian

If this is correct the Kolis would be a Kolarian tribe.

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Nagpur, his evidence appears really to be in favour of the Kolarian origin of the Bhuiyas.

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Bhili, as this dialect is called, contains a number of non-Aryan words, some of which appear to come from the Mundari, and others from the Dravidian languages; but these are insufficient to form any basis for a deduction as to whether the Bhils belonged to the Kolarian or Dravidian race.

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Savars must therefore be classed as a Munda or Kolarian tribe, and since Colonel Dalton identified the Bhuiyas with the Savars of Chota

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Kolarian in Sir G. G.ierson's opinion; and in view of the length of residence of the tribe, the fact that they have abandoned their own language and their association with the Kolis, this view may be taken as generally probable.

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They cannot therefore on the evidence of language be classified as a Munda or Kolarian or as a Dravidian tribe.

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They are one of those Kolarian tribes of which the Santals are perhaps the best known.

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On the other hand there is no resemblance between these Kolarian tales, and the Bengal stories published by Rev. Lal

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The Bhils have lost their own language, so that it cannot be ascertained whether it was Kolarian or Dravidian.

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Although, however, they have to some extent intermarried with the Gonds, the Bharias were originally quite a distinct tribe, and would belong to the Kolarian or Munda group but that they have entirely forgotten their own language and speak only Hindi, though with

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