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An Account of the Tribe of Mliadeo Kolies. 



their influence with the Desmook and Koolkurny to get them either for 

 love or money to support the claims they put forth. 



Three very small villages have been deserted in this quarter, within 

 these last six years. In two of these there were only a very few in- 

 habitants, and, as they had suffered much from sickness, they quitted 

 the place. The third was deserted owing to a boundary dispute not 

 having been satisfactorily adjusted. In the quarter called Ghora of 

 this valley, there are one hundred Koly houses in six villages, and in 

 one village they continue to retain a share of the Patellship. 



The Koly Naik, Dada Baumlay of Bhoregur, is employed in the 

 police with twenty-five Kolies. They have charge of the valleys, of 

 the Ghore, the Bhaum and the Bheema rivers. The Naik's pay is 25 

 Rupees per mensem ; the men receive four rupees each. The Lokkri- 

 ah, Assaully and Bendery clans are the most numerous in this valley. 

 In Meen Nahir there are 321 Koly houses in 17 villages. The 

 Kolies hold the entire Patellship of eleven of these— the Patellship of 

 five others they share with the Koonbies, and of one with a Mussul- 

 man. These are constantly squabbling, and claiming precedence of 

 each other. The most common family names in this strath are 

 the Neegly, Silkunda. Ballcheem, Borrorry, &c. In the Kookur Nahir 

 the Kolies are the sole Patells of thirteen villages, and they share that 

 of eight with the Koonbies. The number of their houses amounts to 

 316. The Toory Koly, Patell of Tejoor, and the Koonby Patell Khur- 

 rad, are always quarrelling. The Koonby is 'accused of having come 

 to the village jungle to graze his cattle, and, by unfair means, to have 

 usurped a share of the Patellship. The Sablah, Naggry, Dewtah, &c. 

 are the most common family names in this strath. 



Mhurr Khora. — The Kolies are the only inhabitants of five of these 

 villages of which they are the Patells ; in four of the other villages 

 there are a good many Koonbies, but the Kolies are the Patells, with 

 the exception of one, which they share with the Koonbies. In the 

 village of Peeplegown the Koonby Jumdurry is the sole Patell. The 

 family of Bhokkur, notorious among the Kolies as being one of their 

 greatest chieftains, was Patell of this place, and resided here. It is 

 known by the name of Peeplegown Bhokkur. It is said that the 

 Bhokkur Naik fled, during an insurrection of the Kolies, when 

 Nana Phurnavees was minister; and that the ancestor of the present 

 Koonby Patell contrived then to secure the situation for himself. 

 The present Koly Naik continues to claim the Patellship. There are 

 164 Koly houses in this glen. 



The Bhokkur Koly, Naik of Mhurr Khora, with 25 Kolies has 

 charge of the police of Meen Nahir, Kookur Nahir and Mhurr Khora. 



In the Oottoor quarter the Kolies are the sole occupiers of ten 

 villages, of which they are the Patells, and they share the Patellship 



