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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
noticeable in their outward appearance. People resort in 
private life to a variety of names in order to facilitate 
distinction between kindred individuals, families and clans. 
The same name is often borne by various tribes who, though 
originally akin to one another, dwell separately ia distant 
places of the large Indian continent. Some tribal terms 
originally unobjectionable have had attributed to them in 
course of time a disparaging meaning, — such terms, for 
instance, as Pariah and Cand'ila. Yet, neither individuals 
nor races should be despised simply for the name they bear, 
particularly, if it is uncertain whether any stigma can be 
attached to them on that account. This caution should be 
strictly observed, especially as identical terms have often 
different significations in the various districts and separate 
communities of so vast a country as India. 
Application of the term Gaudian. 
I am aware that it is impossible to be too cautious in 
drawing up such Ksts as the following, the more so if they 
are the first of their kind ; but one must guard as much 
against mistakes of omission as of commission. It is 
preferable, I believe, in a research like this, to make at first 
comprehensive statements, and to leave to the competent 
critic the task of pruning them. 
I regard imder these circumstances the following tribes 
and races as belonging to the Gaudian division : — the Koi 
(Kui, Ku, Koital, Koya, Koyi), Kodu and Gondu or Konda 
(Klionda, Kunda, Kavunda, Gauda, Gonda, and Gaunda) 
or Kanda (Khanda, Kandara, Canda, and Candala), Toda, 
Kota, Kodaga, Koraga, Kola (Cola), Koli, Kulu, Koraearu 
(Korcaru, Korsaru, Kuril ciyar, Gurcari), Korava (Korama), 
Kuruva (Kuru, Ycrakala, Kuruma, Kurumba, Kurmi>, 
Kunnuva, &c. 
,The following Sanskrit names can, I believe, be con- 
nected with the Gaudians, though it may be difficult actuallv 
