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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
Sir Greorge Campbell appears thus to be rather diffident 
as to the propriety of his selecting the term Kolarian and 
his doubts are not without good cause. A perusal of the 
arguments of Colonel Wilford will confirm them. In the 
twentieth volume of the Asiatic Journal of Bengal was 
published " A comparative Essay on the Ancient Geography 
of India " by Colonel Wilford, in which we read on pp. 
227 and 228 the following remarks : " The oldest name of 
" India, that we know of, is Colar, which prevailed till the 
" arrival of the followers of Brahma, and is still preserved 
" by the numerous tribes of Aborigines, living among 
" woods, and mountains. These Aborigines are called in the 
the race in every province from Burmah to Malabar : in the Kols of Central 
India ; Kolas of Katwar ; the Kolis, inferior husbandmen and a landless clan 
of Gujarat ; the Kolis, ohsciirely mentioned as helot cultivators on the Simla 
range ; the Kolitas of Northern Bengal and Assam ; the Kolami of Central 
India, classed with the Naikude, &c., in my vocabularies ; the Kalars, a 
robber caste in the Tamil country ; the Kalars of Tinnevelly : in the Kolis 
of Bombay ; in the names of the Kolarun river in Southern India, of the 
Koel river, from the Chota Nagpore watershed, of the Culinga and Koladyn 
rivers, and of many other streams ; in Kulna, a district in Beng;il ; 
Kulpac, in the Nizam's dominions ; Kulalpur, in the Panjab ; Kulan and 
Kola Fort, in the distant north-west ; in Kulbunga, town and district, near 
the Bombay Presidency, within, I believe, the territory of the Nizam ; and to 
be brief in such names as the following, scattered over the whole length and 
breadth of India, — names which the reader may identify in a moment by 
referring to Dr. Keith Johnston's index to his Map from the Royal Atlas. 
Kuldah, Kulkeri, Kulianpur in three different districts, Kullavakurti, Kul- 
lean, Kuller-kaher, Kulu district, Kullum, Kullung River, Kullunji, several 
Kullurs, Kulpani, Kulpi, Kulra, Kulsi, Kolachi, Kolapur town and state, 
the three Kolars, Kolaspiir, Kolbarea, Koli, Kolikod ^Calicut), Cola Bira, 
Colair, Colgong, Collum (Kayan-kulam), Colur, and Colombo in Ceylon. I 
would go further, and, if time permitted, could philologieaUy prove the 
connection of the above with hundreds of other names and places in regular 
series." 
I am afraid that something more than time would have been required by 
Sir William Hunter for proving the philological connection of the Kols 
with the Gaudian Kolami, with the Tamil EaUar, with KoUkud the modern 
Calicut or Kfili-kadu, with Kulianpur or Kalyanapuia, not to mention 
many othtTs of the above-quoted names. The Royal Atlas of Dr. Keith 
Johnston can hardly bo regarded as an authority with respect to the spelling 
of Indian places. 
