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IRULAS (" Benighted ones," from Tamil, iral, " darkness ") , a semi-Hinduized See also:forest-tribe of See also:southern See also:India, who are found mainly in See also:North See also:Arcot, See also:Chingleput, See also:South Arcot, See also:Trichinopoly, and the See also:Malabar See also:Wynaad. The typical Irulas of the See also:Nilgiris live a See also:wild See also:life on the See also:lower slopes of those hills. At the 19o1 See also:census this See also:branch of the Irulas numbered 1913, while the See also:total of so-called Irulas was returned at 86,087. See J. W. Breeks, See also:Primitive Tribes of the Nilgiris (1873) ; Nilgiri See also:Manual, i. 214-217; North Arcot Manual, i. 248-249.

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