Korkus

"Korkus" is an aboriginal tribe found in the modern Dang District of Gujarat state, India.

During the British Raj of pre-independent India, the Dangs was a part of central provinces, dwelling on the Satpura hills. They were of interest as being the westernmost representatives of the Munda family of speech.

The 1901 census report suggested that the tribe may be rapidly converting to Hinduism, as may be gathered from the figures of the census of 1901, which show 140,000 Korkus by race, but only 88,000 speakers of the Korku language. According to "Census Report, Central Provinces and Berar, 1931 (Volume XII, Part I)", the then deputy commissioner of Amravati, Mr. Stent, sent a note to the census officer saying that the educated Indian officers maintained that Gonds, Korkus, Bhils, Gowaris and Banjaras were Hindus, and that he himself conceded that when members of these tribes settled in a Hindu village they became Hindus.

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*1911