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Bhuias

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Bhuias, collective name of numerous non-Aryan or mixed low-caste peoples, North India, from Gondava and Orissa to West Assam, in Chota Nagpor, Bengal, etc. Four main divisions: Mal or Desh, Dandsena, Khatti, Rajkal; speech, Oriya, Bengali, Hindi, according to the localities, the primitive Kolarian tongues being long extinct.

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