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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 954 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KURUMBAS and KURUBAS, aboriginal tribes of See also:

southern See also:India, by some thought to be of distinct races. There are two types of Kurumbas, those who live on the Nilgiri See also:plateau, speak the Kurumba See also:dialect and are See also:mere savages; and those who live in 'the plains, speak See also:Kanarese and are civilized. The former are a 'small See also:people, with See also:wild matted See also:hair and scanty See also:beard, sickly-looking, pot-bellied, large-mouthed, with projecting jaws,prominent See also:teeth and thick lips. Their villages are called motias, See also:groups of four or five huts, built in See also:mountain glens or forests. At the 1901 See also:census the See also:numbers were returned at 4083. See See also:James W. Breeks, An See also:Account of See also:Primitive Tribes of the See also:Nilgiris (1873) ; Dr See also:John Shortt, See also:Hill Ranges of Southern India, pt. i. 47–53; Rev. F. See also:Metz, Tribes Inhabiting the Neilgherry Hills (See also:Mangalore, 1864).

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