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NUTS. particular feats are, as it were, the hereditary property and occupation of each tribe, with which the others do not interfere. Parties of them accompanied the Mahomedan armies into the Deccan, and settled there; and some of them had, and may still have, formal grants from Aurungzeeb of certain rights, of collections of grain, and other perquisites, from village communes of certain districts enumerated. Many of these families exist in the Deccan and Berar, chiefly in the Nizam's territories; but proper Nuts are rarely found south of the Krishina. There they are met by other Tamul and Teloogoo performers, who are possessed of equal, and perhaps superior accomplishments.