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 ass THE IND1AJT ANTIQlAitr. rKbnxsni. 1&7& to be akin to the Kolis of the BahyMrt, and would derive their name from a contraction of mimUohe (so. M), 'men or the s.nnstit. t> They are chiefly confined to the high plateau* of the Pirnpalnor TAluka, forming thu northernmost outworks of the S a b y a d r range. They ore rather tall and fair as compared with the oth# aboriginal tribes of Khandcsh ; not very aiiuicr- cos, and Eve chMy by cultivation; rude enough, but improvable J they tut- a qoist, well- behaved people, got drunk a little u1 rimes, tell the truth in inverse ratio to their pro | and civilisation, and seldom take. Government service. They bury their dead, nnd often the deceased's personal property with him. The Kofikanls niuk below the Gil w ids , inhabit the same country, and resemhlr- the m in way of living, Imt arc dark and short, nnd more like tho T h u k u r *t of the Koidcau in ap- pearance tlian any other Cfcttft. They arc, how* ever, a ranch DM** BStslsd race than the hitter, and use the plough, which the ThUcfin seldom JO, They any their ancestor* conic from the Kuiikan at some long-forgotten period. They bury their dead, and creel in their nmmory mouolithb squire pillars, sainetiniea aw much as eight feet high above ground They don't often take service or leave their village, but many of, aw of the G a w i d h , are pafdi. Neither ( r l.avu any disfmrtiva diui The Pnuryns inhabit the north-wi cornurof the dlstriol between riia ©res* o gatpi I I B S J- rmndll ri ver. They at C 1 1 ,nl riiv esfio, bat bimple and wen-behaved ^b. They call thsmaalvc jra BhilT, i'uurya Nnik, and Paurya Kelt indif* lv but to my eyo resemble in appearance li Kola of the Koftkan, Thu men wear peculiar silver earrings with a square drop, the women huge necklaces of tittiall | beads. I have on a former occumou described irfjenlLaritiew of their dialect {ImL Ant. vol. UL p 850). The T & r v i s nre, in Khtadesh, n mixed race produced partly by convei U hi lis to Islfitn, and partly by miscegenation of Bhllis and Mus&lmans, — a cross which shows very plainly on their feature!*. They are a 1 1' tie mure oivitixed than the Bhillti, but their k. now ledge of lahlm may bo judged of from tlir* faei that riia greater number do not know enough of a prayer to say over on animal thu I is being slaughtered. In KhAndash proper I are nearly Always attached to a village races, of which they are sometimes the watch* men: but in British trtmar they ^occasionally the only inhabitants of forest, village*; 94' "| the two " Haiti States" of .1 ii m t. i and U e (each of which consists of a single village). They nre tolerable rhiMri*, but bad uultivn nnd In a gen oral way combine the faults of both race*. The late Major Forsyth attaches to the word Tikrvi the yiguinentiGU of * hereon man.* After much inqotry from the beat
 * iui]i ■ -r hi <•-., 1 cannot find Lhut it IB aver used iu

that sense in KMinlefih, or in any oilier than that whirh I have given nt>ove ; but thai moat accu- rate and acute observer must have had gr-- for his statement, and it is probable (hni have ado[»tcd the name of an office a» that of their rawv just as the true Mhtlla delight in Call lug themselves ** Naiks," u purely omeial nana*. Major Forsyth colls this caste "Muhammadan Bhtlla," and gives them a very had character. They are VOTf ready to tukv any service, arfr still n ther •<« v*m to theft, and were formerly grunt robbem I remembor an old Titrvl pohrf to me a deep glen In the Haiti hillit wirh the remark " afany's the good bwd rf caitlr I've hidden 1 1 m i e in old days." « the swnrd and m m the bow. TJi o Me w a 1 1 is areooi nhabB an ts - if Khiu- desh pro]. i ho tradition of thair advent in tho Satmhla hills bordering on it U so ©urion-i that I stretch u point to bring them iu here. They are MuaalmAn mouultunceT-i from M b w at, in Central -I say that Ahuugir I nnrted them to garrison t he lbrta and* hold the posses about AjnniM, where they iuliahit fifty villages in tho hills and forests. They are a very S Ift and extraniel.V rouj^h of speech, bat houujil and bravo, and physically toll, strong and active, though as ugly of visage aw a pock of eatyrs. They live by rough cultivation nnd wood". Thu B h i 1 & I a fi + are a omssed race bol ween tho It h i 1 1 a and castu-Hindus. They are found 0906% in the Siiipuraa, whore ihi-y live by cuittvntion and wood*cntting, and are not markablc far anything but their persistent assertion of snperiority to tho lihlllw. A Bhi- • ViiieXsd,Ast. t )LIILp.lB7. f Vi.1* Mft. III. p. ISO. I St* JacU Anl t«1 ttl. p. SOS-