KURUMBAS

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KURUMBAS and KURUBAS, aboriginal tribes of southern India, by some thought to be of distinct races. There are two types of Kurumbas, those who live on the Nilgiri

plateau

PLATEAU (a French
term
- TERM
, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
PLATEAU, JOSEPH
ANTOINE
- ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )
FERDINAND (1801-1883)

, speak the Kurumba dialect and are mere savages; and those who live in 'the plains, speak Kanarese and are civilized. The former are a 'small people, with wild matted

hair

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

and scanty

beard

BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge,
beak
- BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)
of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)

, sickly-looking, pot-bellied, large-mouthed, with projecting jaws,prominent teeth and thick lips. Their villages are called motias, groups of four or five huts, built in

mountain

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical
mons
- MONS (Flemish Bergen)
, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

glens or forests. At the 1901

census

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

the numbers were returned at 4083.
See James W. Breeks, An Account of Primitive Tribes of the Nilgiris (1873) ; Dr John Shortt, Hill Ranges of Southern India, pt. i. 4753; Rev. F. Metz, Tribes Inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills (

Mangalore

MANGALORE

, 1864).

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