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The '''Kol people''' are a tribe in [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]], who migrated there from central India around five centuries ago. Mostly landless and dependent on forest produce to make a living, they are Hindus and are designated a [[Scheduled Caste]] under India's [[reservation in India|system of positive discrimination]]. The tribe has several [[exogamy|exogamous]] clans, including the Brahmin‚ Barawire, Bhil, Chero, Monasi, Rautia, Rojaboria‚ Rajput and Thaluria. They speak the [[Baghelkhandi]] dialect.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErE0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR42|title=Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India|isbn=9781351741316|last1=Pullaiah|first1=T.|last2=Krishnamurthy|first2=K. V.|last3=Bahadur|first3=Bir|date=8 September 2017}}</ref> Around 1 million live in Madhya Pradesh while another 5 lakh live in Uttar Pradesh. | The '''Kol people''' are a tribe in [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]], who migrated there from [[Chota Nagpur Plateau|Chota Nagpur]]<ref name=Balfour/> in central India around five centuries ago. Mostly landless and dependent on forest produce to make a living, they are Hindus and are designated a [[Scheduled Caste]] under India's [[reservation in India|system of positive discrimination]]. The tribe has several [[exogamy|exogamous]] clans, including the Brahmin‚ Barawire, Bhil, Chero, Monasi, Rautia, Rojaboria‚ Rajput and Thaluria. They speak the [[Baghelkhandi]] dialect.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErE0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR42|title=Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India|isbn=9781351741316|last1=Pullaiah|first1=T.|last2=Krishnamurthy|first2=K. V.|last3=Bahadur|first3=Bir|date=8 September 2017}}</ref> Around 1 million live in Madhya Pradesh while another 5 lakh live in Uttar Pradesh. | ||
Once spelled "Cole", the swaths of land they inhabited in the 19th-century were called "Colekan".<ref name=Balfour>{{cite book|title=The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia|editor=Edward Balfour |year=1862 |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Second_Supplement_with_Index_to_the/V0FCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |page=537}}</ref> | |||
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The Kol people are a tribe in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, who migrated there from Chota Nagpur[1] in central India around five centuries ago. Mostly landless and dependent on forest produce to make a living, they are Hindus and are designated a Scheduled Caste under India's system of positive discrimination. The tribe has several exogamous clans, including the Brahmin‚ Barawire, Bhil, Chero, Monasi, Rautia, Rojaboria‚ Rajput and Thaluria. They speak the Baghelkhandi dialect.[2] Around 1 million live in Madhya Pradesh while another 5 lakh live in Uttar Pradesh.
Once spelled "Cole", the swaths of land they inhabited in the 19th-century were called "Colekan".[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edward Balfour, ed. (1862). The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia. p. 537.
- ↑ Pullaiah, T.; Krishnamurthy, K. V.; Bahadur, Bir (8 September 2017). Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India. ISBN 9781351741316.
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