m8 Sey. Proceedings of the Ninth. [N.S., XVIII, 
is 
doing so much for Indian Anthropology, I mean, Rai Bahadur 
Saratchandra Roy. As you know, he hails from Ranchi, the 
headquarters of Chutiya Nagpur where Oraons abound. In 
the Central Provinces they are merely an out-growth number- 
ing only 83,000 against their total strength of over 7 lacs in 
India, yet in Central India they form the second Dravidian 
tribe very appropriately, as they are so closely associated with 
Gonds. “Mr. Roy identifies them as the monkeys who formed 
the armies of Rama. The Oraons in their own language call 
themselves Kurukhs, the derivation of which is unknown. t 
home. Let me, however, first tell you that this tribe owns 
some six different names, viz Dhangar, Kuda, Modi and Kisan 
besides Oraon and Kurukh. Dhangar means a farm servant, 
and this name is given to them where they serve as such. 
Elsewhere they are diggers of earth and therefore called Kuda 
which means a digger. In some places they make a speciality 
of constructing embankments of fields and are called Modi 
from Mida an embankment. Where they cultivate for them- 

