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The '''Kol people''' are a tribe or caste in Southeast [[Uttar Pradesh]] and [[Madhya Pradesh]]. Mostly landless and dependent on forest produce to make a living, they are Hindus and are designated a [[Scheduled Caste]] under India's [[reservation in India|system of positive discrimination]]. The tribe has several [[exogamy|exogamous]] clans, including the Brahmin‚ Barawire, Bhil, Chero, Monasi, Rautia, Rojaboria‚ Rajput and Thaluria. They speak the [[Baghelkhandi]] dialect.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErE0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR42|title=Ethnobotany of India, Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India|isbn=9781351741316|last1=Pullaiah|first1=T.|last2=Krishnamurthy|first2=K. V.|last3=Bahadur|first3=Bir|date=8 September 2017}}</ref> Around 1 million live in Madhya Pradesh while another 5 lakh live in Uttar Pradesh.<br />
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It also refers to tribals of Chotanagpur in Eastern Parts of India.<ref name=Balfour/> The [[Munda people|Mundas]], [[Oraons]], [[Ho people|Hos]] and [[Bhumij people|Bhumijs]] were called Kols by British.<ref>{{cite book|title=The KOL RISINGS OF CHOTANAGPUR (1831-1833)-ITS CAUSES|editor=Shri Jagadish Chandra Jha |year=1958 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44145239 |page=}}</ref><br />
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Once spelled "Cole", the swaths of land they inhabited in the 19th-century were called "Colekan".<ref name=Balfour>{{cite book|title=The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia|editor=Edward Balfour |year=1862 |url=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Second_Supplement_with_Index_to_the/V0FCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |page=537}}</ref><br />
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