OF BHARATAVARSA OR INDIA. 
177 
based on the family system, while Abbe Dubois gives 
another derived from occupation, and Dr. Balfour prefers 
one of local origin. 
In the census report these people are arranged under 
different heads, and their aggregate number amounts to 
nearly 175,0()0.9i 
On the Kurus (Yerakulas) and Kaurs. 
Another tribe who are acknowledged as a separate 
class of the Kuravas are the Yerakulavandlu or Yerakala- 
vdru, who call themselves Kuru, Kuhivuru or Kola, while 
the Tamil people designate them as Kuravar, whom they 
resemble in their manners and customs.^^ They live in 
eat it, they deem the dead to have lived a very depraved life, and impose 
a heavy fine on his relatives for having permitted such evil ways." 
About the name consult Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms, hy 
H. H. Wilson, p. 294 : " Eoracharn, also Korckaru, Korraru, or Korsaru, &c., 
corruptly Korchoor. The name of a tribe in the Karnatic, whose business 
is making bamboo mats and baskets, or who carry betelnuts from market to 
market : they live in the hills and forests. 
" Koravarava, Koramaravanu, or Koraranv, or abhrev. Koravar, Koramar. . . 
The name of a low tribe in Mysore, of which there are three branches — 
Kalla-koramar , who are professed thieves ; Walaga-koramar, who are musi- 
cians ; and Hakki-koramar, who are a migratory race, and subsist bj' making 
baskets, catching birds, &c. : they are hill and forost tribes and have a 
dialect of their own : (the name may be only a local modification of Kola, 
or Cole, the hill tribes of Hindustan)." On p. 305: " Xuruchchit/an, or 
Kuruman, Mai. A class of people inhabiting the hills in Wynad." 
5' According to the Census Report of 1881, there were registered in India 
I, ^10 Eurumarin Madras, 1,071 Gorcha in the North-Westem Provinces, 
24Hakikoraw in Hyderabad, 11,864 Korachar in Mysore, 110,473 Koravar 
in Madras and Travancore, 597 Korchar in Bombay, 3,448 Koritviavasayar in 
Madras, 14,106 Korvi in Bombay, 1,001 Kuravandlu in Madras, 31,644 Eura 
in the Central Provinces, 14 Kuravar in the Central Provinces, and 3,135 
Kurwai in Hyderabad, &c. 
32 Consult H. H. Wilson's Glossary, pp. 560, 561 : " YerkuUevar, (?) Tel. 
probably for Erukuvddu, pi. Erukmandlu, and the same as those corruptly 
termed Yerkehvanloo, Yera-kedi, Yerakelloo ( J eso §5 ^r' iSo ) , The designation 
of a wild migratory tribe who subsist on game and all sorts of flesh ; 
they make and sell baskets and mats, and are considered as outcastes : both 
men and women pretend to he fortune-tellers and conjurors : they are 
also said to be called Koorshe-wdnlu, Yerkel-icanloo {wdnlu, or more correctly 
vdndlu, being only the plural of vddii), Yera-kedi, and Yerakelloo, but to be 
known amongst themselves as Eurru ; they are possibly the same who appear 
