Khondn.
/kɒnd/ a. A Dravidian people inhabiting Orissa in eastern India; one of this people.
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Telugu1789
Telinga1801
Maler1811
Khond1852
Kolama1863
1852 S. C. Macpherson in Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 13 217 The ancient state of Orissa was formed chiefly from the territories of..the Khonds, the Koles, and the Sourahs.
1867 W. D. Whitney Lang. & Study of Lang. ix. 327 The wild Gonds and Khonds of the hilly country of Gondwana.
1937 H. G. Rawlinson India viii. 128 Among the Khonds, one of the primitive tribes, a human victim known as the meriah was until recently sacrificed in order to secure fertility for the fields.
1946 R. C. Majumdar et al. Adv. Hist. India 826 To the first Lord Hardinge's Government belongs the credit of taking steps to stop the human sacrifices practised by the Khonds in Orissa.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 480/2 The most eastern member of the Central group [of Dravidian languages] is the language of the Khonds or Kandhs.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 244/2 The most interesting of the aboriginal races are the Konds.
b. The language spoken by the Khonds.
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Gondi1855
Gond1856
Maria1863
Khond1881
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 778/2 Bishop Caldwell recognizes twelve distinct Dravidian languages:—(1) Tamil,..(10) Khond.
Compounds
General attributive.
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1852 S. C. Macpherson in Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 13 221 The Khond religion exists in oral traditions alone.
1909 E. Thurston Castes & Tribes S. India III. 398 A Kondh funeral dance in the Ganjam Māliahs.
1970 D. G. Mandelbaum Society in India II. xxii. 422 His trade is carried on with men of the Kond tribe who are rated as a clean jati by the neighbouring Oriyas.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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