Korwan.

1865 E. T. Dalton in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 34: Pt. ii 29 The Khairwars.., Korewahs and Coles number from 5000 to 7000 each.

1875 J. F. Watson & J. W. Kaye People of India VIII. 424 Korwas..are basket makers by profession... Korwas are evidently descended from an aboriginal stock, and are hardly recognized as Hindoos... Korwa dacoits do not intermarry with Korwa burglars.

1908 H. H. Risley People of India i. 44 Among the large groups..the Korwa (74·4) are just included in the long-headed division.

1923 R. B. Dixon Racial Hist. Man iii. i. 259 Groups of ‘casteless’ aboriginal peoples, such as the Munda, Korwa, Malé.

1957 G. S. Ghurye Mahadev Kolis i. 6 The Korwas and the Korkus..have a better claim to relationship with the Koris. But the Korwa,..and the Korku are..assigned to the Kol or the Kolarian ethnic stock.

1872 E. T. Dalton Descr. Ethnol. Bengal v. 125 Not one of them would acknowledge that he could speak a word of Korwa.

1906 G. A. Grierson Ling. Surv. India IV. 148 The most idiomatic Korwā is spoken in Jashpur and Sarguja, in the south of Palamau, and in Mirzapur.

1972 W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 227 The languages in question are..Koda (35,000) and Korwa (25,000).