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‘The Ethnology of India. 
class the Kharwars, &c. with Kolarians rather than with Dravidians. 
Mr. Mather, quoting Mr. Jones, says that, passing on from the Khar- 
wars, he came to the ‘ Oraons,’ in whom he found “the difference from 
the Mirzapore Hill people to be so great, that they appeared to be 
quite another nation.” In fact, the Oraons are now a good deal 
interposed between the Kharwars and Kolarian Moondahs, but Col. 
Dalton also says that the Kharwars and Oraons, though in contact, 
are very unlike one another in language, appearance, manners and 
customs. The Kharwars, he says, are not quite so African looking 
as the Oraons, but some of them seem to be not much better favoured. 
A long connection with the plains would best account for the adop- 
tions of the language and some of the manners of the plains-people 
by the Kharawars and Rajwars. And here the question has suggested 
itself to me, whether they may not perhaps be identified with the 
Cheroos and Bhurs, those aboriginal tribes whose dominion in the 
plain country to the north of these hills is matter of history, who 
‘seem certainly to have come from and to have gone to the country 
now inhabited by these tribes, and who from this point of their his- 
tory almost or wholly disappear. Buchanan seems to speak ambi- 
guously, sometimes classing Kharawars and Cheroos together, sometimes 
treating of them as separate. While mentioning the Cheroos as 
nearly extinct in the plains, he speaks of them as still existing in 
numbers in the high country within the hills. In the accounts of 
the latter country, on the other hand, I find no mention of either 
Cheroos or Bhurs under those names. Farther inquiry seems neces- 
sary. Our use of Roman letters applied to native names is very 
uncertain, and if we could suppose the C in Cheroo to be pronounced , 
hard as in Cole, Cheroo would become Kheroo, and Kheroo would be 
not very different from the Khara of Kharawar (the ‘war’ is a mere 
termination), while Khara might again be connected with the name 
of the Kolarian Khorewahs already mentioned, and with the Koors, 
equally Kolarian, to be subsequently noticed. Again, the Bhurs are 
more commonly known as ‘ Rajbhurs ;’ 
may not Rajhbur have been 
corrupted into ‘ Rajwar ?’ 
The present dominant position of the Kharwars in a considerable 
country would seem much to tally with the idea of their representing 
the tribes once so famous, Both the Rajas of Singrowlee and Jush- 
