[This article is based mainly on Colonel Dalton's classical description
of the Mundas and Hos in the Ethnology of Bengal and on Sir H. Risley's
article on Munda in The Tribes and Castes of Bengal. Extracts have
also been made from Mr. Sarat Chandra Roy's exhaustive account in The
Mundas and their Country (Calcutta, 1912). Information on the Mundas
and Kols of the Central Provinces has been collected by Mr. Hira Lal in
Raigarh and by the author in Mandla, and a monograph has been furnished
by Mr. B. C. Mazumdar, Pleader, Sambalpur. It should be mentioned
that most of the Kols of the Central Provinces have abandoned the
old tribal customs and religion described by Colonel Dalton, and are
rapidly coming to resemble an ordinary low Hindu caste.]