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See also:KOTAS (Kotar, Koter, Kohatur, Gauhatar) , an aboriginal tribe of the Nilgiri hills, See also:India. They are a well-made See also:people, of See also:good features, tall, and of a dull See also:copper See also:colour, but some of them are among the fairest of the 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 tribes. They recognize no See also:caste among themselves, but are divided into keris (streets), and a See also:man must marry outside his keri. Their villages (of which there are seven) are large, averaging from See also:thirty to sixty huts. They are agriculturists and herdsmen, and the only one of the hill tribes who practise See also:industrial arts, being excellent as carpenters, smiths, tanners and See also:basket-makers. They do See also:menial See also:work for the See also:Todas, to whom they pay a See also:tribute. They See also:worship ideal gods, which are not represented by any images. Their See also:language is an old and See also:rude See also:dialect of See also:Kanarese. In 1901 they numbered 1267.
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