Bhil
Americannoun
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Bhils,
plural
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Bhil
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Bhil
First recorded in 1815–25
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The Bhil men sat cross-legged and impassive; the Bhil women stared at the odhnis through the eyeholes in their cloaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every Bhil woman would get one, announced Tantia, if she would swear by Kaladev that she would never hide her face again.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had some presents, he said, for his sisters, the Bhil women, and he flung open the suitcases he had brought with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies.
From Time Magazine Archive
This is known as the Bhil country, and lies among the Vindhya mountains with a mean elevation of about 1800 ft.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
There are some 4,000,000 Bhils scattered through the arid lands of west and central India, and they are poor, even for India.
From Time Magazine Archive
These suggest the likelihood of the Gohuri, the Bhatti, and their like, being in the same category with the Khonds and Bhils, &c., i.e., representatives of the earlier and more exclusively Tamulian populations.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
A large portion is hilly, and inhabited by Bhils.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" by Various
But I am not pleading here for Gonds, or Bhils, or Santhals, and other non-Aryan tribes.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
Sir J. Malcolm supposes accordingly that the Bhils are sectarians, who separated from the Brahmanical creed, and were excommunicated.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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