Excerpt from Census of India, 1911, Vol. 10: Central Provinces and Berar, Part I Report V. - The Chota Nagpur Slales. - These five States have recently been transferred from Bengal and are formed into a separate division, partly because it is convenient to keep their statistics separate at this census and partly because they are in many ways, physically and ethnically, distinct from the other tracts of the Chhattisgarh Division, belonging more nearly to the tract of country which includes the Rewah State of Central India. These remote and hilly tracts are sparsely inhabited by an aboriginal people belonging chiefly to branches of the Munda race who are not found in great numbers in other parts of the Central Provinces.