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See also:KHONDS, or KANDHS , an aboriginal tribe of See also:India, inhabiting the tributary states of See also:Orissa and the See also:Ganjam See also:district of See also:Madras. At the See also:census of 1901 they numbered 701,198. Their See also:main divisions are into Kutia or See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill Khonds and See also:plain-dwelling Khonds; the landowners are known as Raj Khonds. Their See also:religion is animistic, and their See also:pantheon includes eighty-four gods. They have given their name to the Khondmals, a sub-See also:division of Angul district in Orissa: See also:area, 800 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 64,214. The Khond See also:language, Kui, spoken in 1901 by more than See also:half a million persons, is much more closely related to See also:Telugu than is Gondi. The Khonds are a finer type than the Gonds. They are as tall as the See also:average See also:Hindu and not much darker, while in features they are very See also:Aryan. They are undoubtedly a mixed See also:Dravidian See also:race, with much Aryan See also:blood.
The Khonds became notorious, on the See also:British occupation of their district about 1835, from the prevalence and See also:cruelty of the human sacrifices they practised. These " Meriah " sacrifices, as they were called, were intended to further the fertilization of the See also:earth. It was See also:incumbent on the Khonds to See also:purchase their victims. Unless bought with a See also:price they were not deemed acceptable. They seldom sacrificed Khonds, though in hard times Khonds were obliged to sell their See also:children and they could then be See also:purchased as Meriahs. Persons of any race, See also:age or See also:sex, were acceptable if purchased. See also:Numbers were bought and kept and well treated; and Meriah See also:women were encouraged to become mothers. Ten or twelve days before the See also:sacrifice the victim's See also:hair was cut off, and the villagers having bathed, went with the See also:priest to the sacred See also:grove to forewarn the goddess. The festival lasted three days, and the wildest orgies were indulged in.
See See also:Major See also:Macpherson, Religious Doctrines of the Khonds; his See also:account of their religion in Jour. R. See also:Asiatic See also:Soc. xiii. 220–221 and his See also:Report upon the Khonds of Ganjam and See also:Cuttack (See also:Calcutta, 1842) ; also District Gazetteer of Angul (Calcutta, 1908).
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