600 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1908. 
sistent with the commonly accepted theory that the Oraofis 
settled in Chota Nagpur peacefully, and that the Mundas were 
eventually crowded out from their habitations. However 
peaceful might be at first the influx of the Oraofis, it is incon- 
ceivable that it ex to “seh so for long. The emigration 
of the Oraofis in Jarge numbers the cause of the rupture, 
which at last ontiaatiad the Mundas to leave the place and 
move to the south. 
e interval between the dim past and the historic present 
is long. a 1833 Captain (afterwards Sir Thomas) Wilkinson, 
as Agent the Governor-General of South-Western Frontier 
Agency, eatablished the headquarters of the Agency at Rajichi. 
He built a residence, now occupied by the Commissioner, and 
on its north-western side he built a Kachhari and record-room, 
and close to them quarters for Mukhtars and ‘Amlas. His 
residence touched et outskirts of the Oraofi hamlet, Ranchi. 
town was called Wilkinsonpur, after its founder, but 
corrupted in the vernacular to Kisunpur. In 1840 the head- 
quarters of the District, too, were transferred from Lohardaga 
to Rajichi. Colonel Ouseley was the Agent, and his brother 
Captain Richard Ouseley, was his Senior Assistant. Colonel 
changed to that of Ranchi—the archi of the Oraojis of the fabu- 
lous time. The modern town consists of three villages—Chadri, 
Konka, and only a part of Ranchi. village is now 
called Puranki Ranchi (or old Ranchi) to distinguish it from its 
modern namesake. 
e Hindi version of the fable was written for me by a 
young Oraof, and is transcribed below verbatim et literatim in his 
own patois, which is spoken by the aborigines of Rafichi in 
conversation with other people. It shows at once the language 
and the mode of expression of the tribe. The story is now 
almost forgotten, and is remembered only by a few. 
APPENDIX. 
{Of the two plateaux in the Chota Nagpur Division, the 
Aryan language of the northern or Hazaribagh plateau is 
prucals _and that of the southern or Rafichi plateau a form o 
Bhojpiri—Dr. Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, vol. v, 
ii. 
The following story is told in what is called Ganwari or 
Nagpuria Hindi, admixtured with such expressions as the liter- 
ate aborigines pick up in schools.] 
Ranchi sahar ke nam ke bare men ek kahani hai. Bahut 
baras bit gaye, ~_— jab Uraon log Rohittas Garh se khadere 
gaye our r ke basinde hue. Us wakt Ranchi sahar 

