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 o. BOBB villagee are rare. It is only in the neighborhood of collierice and mica mines, that we .come across villes containing a population of some five to 8ix hundr In some 1ocalitie8, the total population of a village is only 60 or 65. The 8urfa of the land of 0hotauagpur i8 broken'in many. places. "There are hill8 everywhere, grouped in range after range or riaing up abruptly a thousand feet and more out of the surrounding level, thrown The hilly up like watch tower8 oer the land." tract8 are covered with jungles and by ravine8 or open alleys. In a village there is a long row of houses, some- time8 there are two row8 in opposite directions. The site of a village 8 generally marked by some ancient tamarind tree& Mango and jack fruit trees with cluster8 o! bamboo8 form a pleasing sight. Nowhere i8 the heterogeneity of the people 8o cons- picuous as in the 0hotanagpur villages which e the residence of aborigina18, or semi-aborigina18 (like the Ho8, Munds8, 0raons, Santa18 or Ko18 and Bhuyiu) and Hindus of various eastes, like the Kahsrs, Lhrs, Dussds, Burhis, Telis, Koiries, Ksndus, Brahmans and Bajputs. Muhammadan element. The average generally there are are not Weavers known as Jolhas constitute the residence of a villager consists on the of two or three rooms.. The houses are single huts. The building materials are principally earth, posts and 'khapras'. Sometimes thatched cottes. Watertight leaf-houses rare. Brickbuilt houses are seldom seen. The houses of the richer class of peasants are roomy, and there. are verandahs and granaries. The special feature of every house that will strike even a casual observer is the absence of windows. As a rule not a single window can be seen in any