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" word was ' Kola ' or ' Kolar.' In fact, India seems to have 
" been known to the ancients (who approached it coastwise 
"from the West) as Colara or Coolee-land {Asiatic Re- 
" searches, vol. IX) and the people as Colaurians. If Kolar 
" he the original form of Kolee, it would seem not im- 
" probable that^ as in the mouths of some tribes by dropping 
** the ' r ' it becomes Kola or Kolee, so in the mouths of 
*' others by dropping the ' 1 ' it would become Koar, Kaur, 
" Koor, Khar, or Khor, a form which would embrace a 
" large number of those tribes as now designated. I propose 
" then to call the northern tribes Kolarian or Coolee 
** Aborigines. 
" One may see frequent allusion to Kolaries or Colleries 
" in the south of India. It appears that the word there 
" used is properly ' Kallar.' In the Canarese language, the 
word ' Kallar,' it seems, simply means a thief or robber, 
" and hence some of the predatory Aborigines of the hills, 
" are designated Kallars or robbers, just as the thieves of 
" Central Asia are called ' Kazaks ' or ' Cossacks.' The word 
" is applied so differently from that of Coolee, that there 
" may fairly be doubt of its being the same. But the subject 
" is worthy of further inquiry, and if it prove that in fact 
" the two words are identical, the term Coolee or Kolarian 
" must be applied to the Aboriginal tribes generally, not to 
" one division of them. Meanwhile, however, I apply it to 
*' the Northern tribes only, but I confess I have misgivings 
" whether the more general sense may not prove to be the 
" true one."2» 
See The Ethnology of India, by Mr. Justice Campbell, in the Supplement 
to Part II, pp. 27, 28 of vol. XXXV of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
Compared Comparative Dictionary of the Languages of India and High Asia 
by "W. W. Hunter ; Dissertation, pp. 28-27- " Sanskrit literature refers to 
other sections of the Kol race under such names as Chol-as, Kul-indas, &c. . . . 
In the Asiatic Society'' s Journal the ancient name for India is stated to have 
been Kolaria, and turning to the modem map of India, we find indications of 
