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ON THE OEIGIXAL INHABITANTS 
the Eaja of Pudukota. A single individual of this clan 
is called a Kalian, of which word KaUar is the plural. 
Enough has been already adduced to prove that the 
Kalauria nymphe of Plutarch does not refer to an ancient 
name of India, that the so-called Colaria is a purely imag- 
inary appellation, based in part on a badly pronounced and 
distorted plural formation of the name of the Kallar, or on 
Kolarees, and that, though the term Kolarian may be still 
applied to the Kol race, it must be clearly understood that 
all the wild philological vagaries concerning the origin and 
antiquity of this expression ought to be abandoned. Yet, the 
history of the fictitious, term Colaria provides us on the other 
hand with an instructive example how by a concatenation of 
conjectures and conclusions a new theory can be successfully 
started and find acceptance among scholars of reputation. 
It has thus now become a fashion to ascribe all ancient 
monuments with which the Kolis, Kolas and other kindred 
tribes can be connected with the so-called Kolarians, whose 
original home and early history are shrouded in mysterious 
darkness, who, if we can trust reliable information, do not 
even use the term Kol as a tribal name, and who, so far as 
it is known, do not claim as their own the scattered remains 
in Northern India, which modern wi'iters are so fond of 
ascribing to them. 
I now proceed to discuss in detail the principal tribes 
whom I regard as representatives of the Graudian race. The 
linguistic and ethnological connection of these clans has 
in most instances been generally admitted by competent 
scholars, yet, their close relationship has, so far as I am 
aware, not hitherto been so distinctly stated. 
I shall begin with the Kolis, Kolas, and tribes kindred, 
pass on to the Gonds and their clansmen, then notice the 
It is doubtful whether Kalian meant originally a thief, or simply a man 
of the Kalian tribe who, excelline: in thie\-inpr accomplishments, imparted 
to his tribal name the meaning of thief. I recur to this subject on pp. 233-36. 
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