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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His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies.
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
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
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
The old Bhil, who represented to us the absent dhani, proposed that in the meanwhile we should witness a Brahmanical wedding ceremony.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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
They will thus escape the Bhils, and after journeying on for four miles, at length they will sit down wearied, and revolve many thoughts in their minds.
From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Lady Isabel Burton
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
They were followed by a regiment of Bhils in full disarmour—because no weapons but bows and arrows had been left to them by the English Government.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
But, unfortunately, everything we know about the history of the Bhils is reduced to the above-mentioned tradition, and to a few ancient songs of their bards.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
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