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Kol India.|kəʊl|
Also Col(e), Kole.
[Of disputed origin.]
Mundu-speaking peoples of Chota Nagpur and Bengal in India (see also quot. 1896); a member of any of these peoples. Also attrib. or as adj., of or relating to any of these peoples or their languages.
1795J. T. Blunt Jrnl. 2 Feb. in Asiatick Res. (1803) III. 61 Not wishing to injure the Coles by encamping on the little spots, which, with much care and toil, they had cleared..we took up our abode..in the jungle. 1827R. Jenkins Rep. Territories Rajah of Nagpore ii. 30 The Koorkoo dialect is found to resemble that spoken by the Lurka Koles, on the frontier of Singbhoom. 1847B. H. Hodgson On Aborigines India p. ii, The Kól or Dhánger race. Ibid. iii. 149 The Kóls are indeed, as enterprising as industrious. Ibid. iii. 150 Kól is an old and classical name, and the best I think for the great mass of aborigines intervening between the Bhils, the Gonds, and the Ganges—at least till we know them better. 1866Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XXXV. ii. 154 The present population..are of the race best known to us by the name of ‘Kol’. 1871[see Dravidian adj.]. 1872E. T. Dalton Descr. Ethnol. Bengal v. i. 125 The Kols rejecting all change adhered to their impurity of life. 1896W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.W. Provinces & Oudh III. 294 Kol, a Dravidian tribe found in considerable numbers along the Vindhya Kaimûr plateau. 1903Risley & Gait Rep. Census India 1901 i. 282 The Kol language has..two main dialects, Mundari and Ho. 1931E. A. H. Blunt Caste System N. India xiv. 287 The Kol is a tribe of aboriginal jungle folk, akin to the Bengal Mundas. 1957C. B. Mamoria Tribal Demogr. India iv. 62 In the iron-ore industry..the labour force..consists of largely Santhals and Kols. |