Kolamn.

a1863 S. Hislop Aboriginal Tribes of Central Provinces (1866) i. 10 The Kolâms and the common Gonds do not intermarry... Their dress is similar; but the Kolâm women wear fewer ornaments.

1873 E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) III. K-255/2 Kolam, or Kolamb, a Gond tribe, along the Kandi Konda or Pindi hills, on the south of the Wardha and along the table land stretching east and north of Manikgudh and thence south to Dantanpilly, running parallel to the right bank of the Pranhita... The Kolam race are found also in the Domraoti, Woon, and Maiker districts as a wild race.

1916 R. V. Russell Tribes & Castes Cent. Provinces India III. 521 Mr. Hīra Lāl suggests that the Kolāms may be connected with the Kolas,..who regard the Kolamallai hills as their original home. He further notes that the name of the era by which the calendar is reckoned on the Malabar coast is Kolamba.

a1863 R. Temple in S. Hislop Papers Aboriginal Tribes Cent. Provinces (1866) ii. p. i The English words having been..classified, the design was to ascertain and record..the equivalents in..Gondi, Gayeti,..Kolami.

1916 R. V. Russell Tribes & Castes Cent. Provinces India III. 520 The Kolāms..have a language of their own, called after them Kolāmi.

1968 Encycl. Brit. VII. 655/1 Five of the Central Dravidian languages..form a closely related group—Kolami, Naiki, Parji, Ollari and Poya Gadaba.