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Nagpur
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Nagpur , city (1991 pop. 1,664,006), Maharashtra state, central India, on the Nag...equipment, and ferromanganese products. Founded in the 18th cent. as the capital of the Nagpur Maratha kingdom, it passed in 1853 to the British.
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Kol
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...the insurrection of 1831-1832 in Chota Nagpur. After this uprising, the word "Kol...out of the early ethnography of Chota Nagpur and was replaced by the names of the constituent...In Maharashtra the Kol are found in Nagpur District, in small numbers, where they...
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Oraon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...census. About half of them live in Bihar, mainly on the Chota Nagpur Plateau; the remainder are in Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and...Steiner Verlag. Roy, Sarat Chandra (1915). The Oraon of Chota Nagpur. Calcutta: Brahmo Mission Press. Roy, Sarat Chandra (1928...
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Baiga
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...man" and is applied in this sense to the priests of the Chota Nagpur tribe. The Bhuiyar of Mirzarpur are also called Baiga, as...major urban areas adjacent to their immediate environs, such as Nagpur, Delhi, and Bombay. Relations with the British during colonial...
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Gond
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Proto-Australoids by race like the Oraons and Maler of Chota Nagpur Plateau. It is unknown when and by which route they arrived...eighteenth centuries. Then the Marathas under a Bhonsle ruler of Nagpur overran their country and completely dispossessed them of their...
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Santal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Location. The Santal heartland is the area known as the Chota Nagpur Plateau, a hilly area of crystalline Cambrian rocks, strewn...followers among the Santals who followed him to the south of Nagpur, settled there, and became more Hinduized. Early contacts...
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Munda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Orissa. The remainder are found mainly on and around the Chota Nagpur Plateau — that is, in southern Bihar, northern Orissa...British times (e.g., the Ho/Munda kingdom of Chota Nagpur, and the Bhumij states, especially Barabhum). Mainly, however...
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India
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...rivers rise to the low plateaus of Malwa in the west and Chota Nagpur in the east. The Narmada River, south of the Vindhya hills...Kolkata (Calcutta), Lucknow , Ludhiana , Madurai , Mumbai, Nagpur , Patna , Pune , Surat , Vadodara (see under Baroda ), Varanasi...
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Vaisyas
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...can be substantiated about them that is more than four hundred years old. Around 1750, many Vaisyas migrated to the Chota Nagpur Plateau where they still maintain villages. Others are now located in western Bengal and Orissa. Many are also traders in...
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Brahman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...and Hira Lal (1916). "Brahman." In The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India. Vol. 2, 351-400. Nagpur: Government Printing Press. Reprint. 1969. Oosterhout: Anthropological Publications. Thurston, Edgar, and Kadamki Rangachari...
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