the head and shoulders above the yard.”—Wilson, Abode of Snow, 103.]
1876.—“In the lower hills when
she did not walk she travelled in a dandy.”—Kinloch, Large Game Shooting in Thibet, 2nd S., p. vii.
DANGUR, n.p. H. Dhangar, the name by which
members of various tribes of Chutia Nagpur, but especially of the Oraons, are generally known when they go out to distant provinces to seek employment as labourers
(“coolies”). A very large proportion of those who emigrate to the tea-plantations of E. India, and also to
Mauritius and other colonies, belong to the Oraon tribe. The etymology of the term Dhangar is doubtful.
The late Gen. Dalton says: “It is a word that from its apparent derivation (dang or dhang, ‘a hill’) may
mean any hill-man; but amongst several tribes of the Southern tributary Maháls, the terms Dhángar and
Dhángarin mean the youth of the two sexes, both in highland and lowland villages, and it cannot be considered
the national designation of any particular tribe” (Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, 245) [and see Risley,
Tribes and Castes, i. 219].
