Khond people

Khonds (also spelt Kondha and Kandha; Odia: kôndhô) are an indigenous Dravidian tribal community in India. Quotes Oh! Father, I swear, and if I swear falsely may I become shrivelled and dry like a blood-sucker, and die; may I be killed and eaten by a tiger; may I crumble away like the dust of this ant-hill; may I be blown away like this feather; may I be extinguished like this lamp. Khond oath, reported in John Kennedy, The Natural History of Man; or, Popular Chapters on Ethnography (London: John Cassell, 1851) vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 2, p. 92 External links J. A. R. Stevenson and W. G. Maxwell, "On the Language, Manners and Rites, of the Khoonds, or Khoi Jati, of the Goomsoor Mountains", Madras Journal of Literature and Science, ser. 1, vol. 6 (1837) pp. 17-46 · Edgar Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India (1909) vol. 3, pp. 356-415 Category:Ethnic groups in Asia