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Kori2|ˈkɔərɪ|
Also Koiri, Koli, Koree.
Name of a group of low-caste Hindu weavers of northern India; also, a member of this group.
1839J. Tod Travels in W. India vii. 143 The chief fragment of this once superb monument is enclosed and half-hidden by the huts of Koli weavers. Ibid. xvii. 361 The rest is made up of the agricultural and artizan classes, as Aheers, Kolis, &c. &c. 1868Rep. Ethnol. Comm. Specimens Aborig. Tribes Jubbulpore Exhib. 1866–67 i. 11 The Mahars, Korees, and other weaving clans. 1873Cycl. India (ed. 2) III. s.v. Kori, All the weaver caste throughout Hindoostan are stated by Colonel Tod to be Koli. They call themselves Julai, but are sometimes styled Kori. 1885J. C. Nesfield Brief View Caste Syst. N.-W. Prov. & Oudh xi. 106 The weaver caste is better known to this day by the tribal name of Kori than by the functional names of Bunkar or Joria. 1896J. N. Bhattacharya Hindu Castes & Sects xi. ii. 233 The Kori and Koli of Northern India are weavers professing the Hindu faith; but they are very low castes. 1896W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Prov. & Oudh III. 316 Kori, the Hindu weaver caste. Ibid. 318 The Koris are all Hindus... The status of the Kori is very low. 1916R. V. Russell Tribes & Castes Cent. Prov. India IV. ii. 133 Bodies of the Kori and Katia weaving castes of northern India have been amalgamated with the Mahārs. 1957G. S. Ghurye Mahadev Kolis i. 6 Koris or Koiris are known over a large part of Northern India. I do not know that any responsible student of Indian ethnography has suggested an ethnic connection between Kori and Koli. |