BOLWAN, amongst the Mabrattas, the cere mony of conducting a bride to her husband's house; also dismissal of the bridegroom's friends and attendants. Also, the ceremony of propitiat ing tho Illiuta or spirits of deceased persons (pestilence) who have entered a village, inducing them to leave the village, and conducting them across the borders with music and a procession. Tho exercise of the Bolwan is a cause of great anger to the villagers to whom the pestilence is led. Perhaps from bahina, to call.-1Vason.
130M or Ilun-zu or Born-du are closely allied tribes, termed collectively Liingkta, Kringye, or Kuki, who occupy the highlands of Tiperah, and extend S.E. towards the head of the Koladyn. Both the Bun-zu and Kuki appear, like the Ku-iiii, to belong to the Burman family. The Kuki represent its most archaic and barbarous condi tion. The tribes that have been exposed, on the seaboard of Arakan or in the basin of the Ira wadi, to the influence of the Chinese, Shan, Mon, Bengali, and more distant commercial nations, have attained a comparatively high civilisation.
The Siugpho, although numb behind the Bur mans, are greatly in advance of the Kuki; and the Burmese seem, at a very ancient period, when their condition was similar to that of the Kuki, and perhaps in many respects more barbarous, to have spread themselves from the upper Irawadi to the south and west as far as the highlands of Tiperah on the one side, and Pegu on the other. Wherever the stock from which they have been derived was originally located, they probably first appeared on the ultra-Indian ethnic stage as a barbarous Himalayan tribe, immediately to the eastward of the Mishmi, if indeed they were not identical with the Mishmi of that era. Tho upper Irawadi was probably then occupied by the ruder and inland tribes of the Mon-Anarn