1837.] 



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to be some difference in the manners and habits of those residing in the 

 Wunn Dindory districts. The Naiks adjust matters connected with the 

 usages of their tribes. 



The Doonggury Kolies.— if few of these Kolies reside in the Atta- 

 veessy and in the Wunn Dindory districts. They are farmers and 

 labourers, and some of them are employed as the local police of the 

 district, in the pay of government. Kolies that reside near a hilly 

 district are termed occasionally Doonggury Kolies, from Doonggur a 

 hill. 



The Bheel Kolies are not by any means numerous. We find one or 

 two families settled in a few of the villages along the banks of the 

 Pera and Godavery rivers. They appear to have been runaways, who 

 associated with the Bheels, and subsequently intermarried with them. 



The Mullar Koly. — This Koly seems to be one of the most pure and 

 respectable classes of all the tribes. They are also known by the name 

 of Panburry Kolies, from their employment of supplying the villagers 

 and travellers with water. They generally employ buffaloes, to carry 

 the pukhall (leather bag), in which the water is contained. The 

 Panburry Koly is a member of the third division of the Bulottah insti- 

 tution, and receives his pay in kind from the villagers for his services. 

 It is his duty to wait on travellers in the employ of government, and 

 strangers ; to clean out and plaster (with cow-dung) the floor of the 

 Dhurrum Jalla or Chourry (the public resting place) ; to supply them 

 with water, &c. He alsq attends at all festivals, marriages, &c. in per- 

 formance of his duty. This Koly is also termed, the Choomly Koly, 

 from a twisted piece of cloth, which he places on the crown of his 

 head to rest his water pot on. The same Koly is frequently called the 

 Koonm Koly, from his associating with the Koonbies or cultivators, 

 for they occasionally partake of food at each others houses. One or 

 more families of the Mullar Kolies are settled almost in every village 

 in the Dukhun and in Candeish, and along the Ballaghaut in the 

 Hydrabad territory, extending eastward to Khandhar, Indore and 

 Boden, between the Godavery and Hydrabad ; they are settled in the 

 Ballaghaut (in a south-eastern direction) in the vicinity of Nulldroog. 

 In many of the villages around and south of Punderpoor, this Koly 

 holds the situation of the village Efskur, or beadle, and is conse- 

 quently termeo? turrall. We find them occasionally employed as 

 sepoys and village watchmen. In such villages in the southern portion 

 of Candeish and north of the Godavery river, as the turrall (the per- 

 son who performs the duty the Panburry Koly does in other parts of 

 the country) is either of the Dhere or Bheel tribe, a Koly is engaged as 

 his deputy to perform the service, his own low caste not admitting of 

 his doing so. There are a few Mullar Koly Patells of villages in the 

 Candeish and Ahmudnuggur districts. The hereditary Kolies of the 



