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Bhuiyas, numbering around two million, are the aboriginal tribes of Central Hill Belt of India. These primitive Pauri or Hill Bhuiyas of Keonjhar, Bonai and Pal Lehera states, and the Hinduized Bhuiyas of Himgir and Nagra of Gangpur State of Orissa in British India are the subject of this study, delineating their various stages of cultural development over a period of time.
These Bhuiyas are comparatively more primitive in their customs and manners than the other ...
Mundari-English Dictionary is a hyproduct of the master-researchers and scintillating scholarship of Sarat Chandra Roy, whose anthropological work on the Mundas of Chotanagpur and Santal Parganas remains unsurpassed even till today. His compilatioin of about six hundred words contained the seed out of which this dictionary has flourished. On the eve of its compilation about fifty years ago, Mundari language was spoken by over 60,000 Mundas and other akin tribals. ...
The present work is the results of Fifteen years intimate aquaintance with the Oraons, including three years special inquiries about their customs and usages. The Oraons are spread over such a large track of the Chota Nagpur plateau that local variations of the customs recorded in this book necessarily occur. And as with advancing civilization old customs, habits, ideas and beliefs are now in a process of transformation, decay or disappearance, all the customs ...
The object of this book is to supply the want of a history and ethnography of one of the most interesting of Chota Nagpur tribes. A history of the Mundas is practically a history of the district they inhabit. Infortunately, however, it is only from the beginning of British rule that we have perfectly reliable materials for a history of the people and their country.