Group Photograph of Bhutia People of Darjeeling - 1860's
The Bhutia are ethnic Tibetans who speak Sikkimese, a Tibetan dialect fairly mutually intelligible to standard Tibetan. In 2001, the Bhutia numbered around 70,300. Bhutia here refers to Sikkimese Tibetans; in contrast, the Bhotiya are a larger family of related Tibetan peoples in northern Nepal of which the Bhutia are one member group.
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Toda Man and Woman - India 1890's
The Toda people are a small pastoral community who live on the isolated Nilgiri plateau of Southern India. Before the late 18th century, the Toda coexisted locally with other communities, including the Badaga, Kota, and Kuruba, in a loose caste-like community organization in which the Toda were the top ranking. The Toda population has hovered in the range 700 to 900 during the last century. Although an insignificant fraction of the large population of India, the Toda have attracted (since the late 18th century), "a most disproportionate amount of attention because of their ethnological aberrancy and their unlikeness to their neighbours in appearance, manners, and customs. More in Wikipedia
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A Boy of Kadu Kuruba Tribe - Western Ghats, Mysore 1928
The Kadu Kuruba Tribals are the original inhabitants of the forests of Nagarahole and Kakanakote in the Western Ghats of Southern India. The name comes from the Kannada kadu (forest), and Kuruba, a caste which is a sub-set of the Dhangar caste.
After the fall of the Pallava empire many Kuruba settled down in south India as small landowners and farmers, while some took to hiding in the forests of south India and adopted a forest lifestyle. They developed their own culture and traditions different from other Kuruba due to their prolonged isolation. (More in Wikipedia)
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Kota Temples and a Priest at Kotagiri in the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu - 1871
Photographer: Unknown photographer from the Madras School of Arts
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Portrait of a Man of the Kochh Mandai Tribe Holding a Thick-Bladed Agricultural Knife - Eastern Bengal 1860's
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Kochh Mandai woman of Eastern Bengal - 1860's
Tribal woman from eastern Bengal. Probably from Jungle area of north Dacca.
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Two Toda men and a woman from the Nilgiri Hills in Tamil Nadu India - 1871
Photographer: A member from the Madras School of Arts
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