The Mundas are one of the oldest settlers in India, with their concentration in the Chotanagpur region of Bihar and some adjacent areas in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. The Mundari language is a subject of great interest to both the ethnologist and the philologist, since it is the key to the understanding of the material and religious culture and social systems of all the Munda tribes and it may be taken as the basis for the analysis and study of a number of ...
