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| | group = Kurumbas
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| | image = Kurumba man.jpg
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| | total = 88,750
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| | total_year = 2011 census
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| | popplace = [[Kerala]], [[Karnataka]], [[Tamil Nadu]]
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| | languages = [[Kurumba language]]
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| | related = [[Dravidian people|Dravidians]], [[Tamil people|Tamil]]
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| | religions = Animism, [[Hinduism]]
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| | total_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/ST.html|title=A-11 Individual Scheduled Tribe Primary Census Abstract Data and its Appendix|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=2017-11-03}}</ref>}}
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| '''Kurumbas''' (or) '''Kurumbar''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]] : குரும்பர்)([[Malayalam language|Malayalam]] : കുറുംമ്പർ)([[Kannada language|Kannada]] : ಕುರುಂಬ)<ref>[http://tribal.nic.in/WriteReadData/CMS/Documents/201212010351394570312File1066.pdf State wise Scheduled Tribes TAMIL NADU]</ref> are a designated Scheduled [[Tribe]] in the Indian states of [[Karnataka]], [[Kerala]] and [[Tamil Nadu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf |pages=26–27 |title=List of notified Scheduled Tribes |publisher=Census India |accessdate=15 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107225208/http://censusindia.gov.in/Tables_Published/SCST/ST%20Lists.pdf |archivedate= 7 November 2013 }}</ref> The Kurumbar are one of the earliest known inhabitants of the [[Western Ghats]], who are engaged in the collection and gathering of forest produce, mainly wild honey and wax. The members of this community are short, have dark skin, and have protruding foreheads.<ref>[http://tamil.thehindu.com/tamilnadu/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A9-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF-%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4-%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81-%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95-%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%95-%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D-%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%88/article9127274.ece?homepage=true&relartwiz=true பழங்குடியினர் மொழிக்கான அகராதி தயாரித்த ஆசிரியைகள்: அரசு அங்கீகரிக்க சமூக ஆர்வலர்கள் கோரிக்கை]- The hindu Tamil News - 20 september 2016</ref>
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| Kurumbar believe in [[Hinduism]]. The main deity of the tribe is [[Shiva|Lord Shiva]] under the name of [[Bhairava]]. They also worship animals, birds, trees, rock hillocks, and snakes, along with the other Hindu deities.
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| There are several divisions of Kurumba: Jenu, Betta and Alu. Each of these divisions speaks their own [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian]] language. Jenu Kurubas are primarily found in the northern part of the Nilgiris, in the Mysuru district of Karnataka.
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| Kurumbar are one of the six ancient tribal groups in Tamil Nadu. According to the Madras Census Report of 1891, the [[Pallavas]] were Kurumbas.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=H.V. Nanjundayya|url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38701/page/n57/mode/2up?q=Kuruba+pallava|title=The Mysore tribes and castes, Vol 4|last2=L.K. Anathakrishna|date=1988|publisher=Mysore, Mysore University|page=30|oclc= 830766457|quote=They (the Kurubas) are the modern representatives of the ancient Kurumbas or Pallavas, who were once so powerful, throughout South India, but very little trace of their greatness now remains. In the seventh century, the power of the Pallava kings seems to have been at its zenith, but shortly after this, the Kongu, Chola and Chalukya chiefs succeeded in seyeral victories over them. The final overthrow of the Kurumba sovereignty was effected by the Chola king Adondai about the 7th or the 8th century A.D., and the ’Kurumbas were scattered far and wide.}}</ref> They live very much in tune with Nature. Hunting and collecting forest produce are the two main means of living for the Kurumbar tribe. However, the restrictions to protect native forest and wildlife have forced them to find work outside the forests.
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| [[File:Kurumbar ritual, Tamil Nadu.gif|thumb|File:Kurumbar ritual, Tamil Nadu]]
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| == References ==
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| [[Category:Indigenous peoples of South Asia]]
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