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HANIFI known as Handi Jōgi or Handichikka, handi being the Canarese for pig.  Hanifi.— A sect of Muhammadans, named after Abū Hanīfah Anhufmān, the great Sunni Imām and jurísconsult, and the founder of the Hanifi sect, who was born A.H. 80 (A.D. 700).  Hanumān.——Hanumān, or Hanumanta, the monkey god, has been recorded as a sept of Dōmb, and gōtra of Mēdara.  '''Hari Shetti. —''' A name for Konkani-speaking Vānis (traders).  Hāruvar.—— A sub-division of the Badagas of the Nīlgiri hills.  Hasala.——Concerning the Hasalas or Hasulas, Mr.Lewis Rice writes that "this tribe resembles the Sōliga (or Shōlagas). They are met with along the ghâts on the north-western frontier of Mysore. They are a short, thick-set race, very dark in colour, and with curled hair. Their chief employment is felling timber, but they sometimes work in areca nut gardens and gather wild cardamoms, pepper, etc. They speak a dialect of Canarese."

In the Mysore Census Report, 1891, it is stated that "the Hasalaru and Malēru are confined to the wild regions of the Western Malnād. In the caste generation, they are said to rank above the Halēpaikās, but above the Holeyas and Mādigas. They are a diminutive but muscular race, with curly hair and dolichocephalous head. Their mother-tongue is Tulu. Their numbers are so insignificantly small as not to be separately defined. They are immigrants from South Canara, and lead a life little elevated above that of primordial barbarism. They live in small isolated huts, which are, however, in the case of the Hasalās, provided not only with the usual 