Koli
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Kolis,
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Koli
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Fiji Rugby Union chief executive Koli Sewabu said playing games overseas would "enable us to invest more into grassroots rugby supporting the continued growth and success of the team".
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
An audio-visual virtual reality reconstruction of the Devil's Church in Koli is currently underway for research and demonstration purposes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2023
A talented slate of African writers, including the novelists In Koli Jean Bofane and Annie Lulu, offers crucial readings.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
After the screening, Koli said that she had already begun taking on weighty subjects, such as divorce and body shaming, on her own.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2019
There appear to have been various intermarriages between the royal houses of Kapila and Koli.
Thus the Andhs, Kolis, Rautias and Halbas are now all Hindus, and the same remark applies to the Kols, Bhīls and Korkus in several Districts.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The Rāmosis appear to be a Hinduised caste derived from the Bhīls or Kolis or a mixture of the two tribes.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
They are coupled with the Bhīls and Kolis in old Hindu accounts.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The Mahadeo Kolis of Ahmadnagar believe that every malady or disease that seizes man, woman, or child, or cattle, is caused either by evil spirits or by an angry god.
From Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
The wide extension of the Savar tribe east and west is favourable to the hypothesis of the identity of the Kols and Kolis, who have a somewhat similar distribution.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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