VERNACULAR NAMES, 



given are usually Hindi. In the Koderma forest (where, 

 however, there is a very mixed population working in the 

 mica urines) the names are often peculiar, and the word 

 Koderma after a vernacular name has been used in place of 

 specifying the language. Of the Hinduized aborigines in 

 Hazaribagh the Bhuiyas are the most numerous of non- 

 Rinduized tribes, the Santals 



Palamail, — Palamau was originally included with Ranchi 

 in the Lohardagga District, which had in 1881 53*4 per cent, 

 of aboriginal races. It is now a separate district and the 

 most numerous castes are the Bhuiyas, the Goalns and the 

 Kharwttrs. There are, however, also a considerable number 

 of Oraons. The Kharwars are aborigines whose original 

 language is apparently entirely lost, but the mongrel Hindi 

 dialect spoken in Palamau often contains names of trees dis 

 tinct from the ordinary Hindi, and is referred to as Kharwar 

 A few of the Kharwari names quoted were collected by the 

 writer, but the bulk were collected by Mr. Haslett of the 

 Forest Department. 



Santal ParjrauallS. — The Santals form over 36 per cent, 

 of the total population of the district. In the Bamgarh Hills, 

 which are so nth of the Brahmini River but are often 

 included collectively in the term Rajmehal Hills, dwell the 

 Dra vidian tribe known as the Mai Paharias who speak a 

 dialect of Bengali. The few Mai Paharia names quoted have 

 been obtained from Gamble's Manual of Indian Timbers. 

 North of the Bansloi River, on the very summits of the Raj- 

 mehal Hills, dwell the Dravidian Saorias or Males (Mr. 

 Bainbridge says that these are two distinct divisions), 

 closely allied to the Oraons, and whose speech is known as 

 Malto. Saoria names, as in the case of other Oraon names, 

 are wanting, as the writer spent too short a time in the Saoria 

 tract to render the collection of names of any value. Mr. 

 Bainbridge says that " the disappearance of the forest on the 

 north of the Saoria Hills and the shrewd councils of business 

 men cieated the important industry in Sabai grass. To the 



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