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Khonds are an ethnic indigenous tribal people of India. They are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, they are divided into the hill-dwelling Khonds and plain-dwelling Khonds for census purposes; all the Khonds identify by their clan and usually hold large tracts of fertile land but still practise hunting, gathering and slash and burn agriculture in the forests as a symbol of their connection to and ownership of the forest. The Khonds speak the Kui language.

Khonds are an ethnic indigenous tribal people of India. They are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal.

The Khonds came to the limelight during the British Raj for their Rebellion against the British intrusion into their territories for timber in 1836. The British sought to project their invasion of tribal territories as a civilizing mission to prevent for the practice of human sacrifice by the Kondhs.

Munda tribes are the largest tribe of India. The main language spoken by them includes "Munda" or "Killi", Santali and Mundari. 

The Munda Tribe, residing in the Chota Nagpur Plateau in Jharkhand, adjacent parts of Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal and the hill districts of Odisha, is thought to have evolved from the South East Asia. Munda tribes are one of the largest Tribes of India, but have been divided into several sub groups such as Patar, Mahali, Kampat Munda, etc.

The Munda tribe is one of India's largest scheduled tribes, which lives mainly in the state of Jharkhand. The famous Freedom fighter Birsa Minda belongs to this tribe.

Birsa Munda was an Indian tribal freedom fighter and relegious leader who was born on November 15, 1875 in Jharkhand, India, to Sugana Munda, an agricultural laborer, and his wife, Karmi Hatu.Therefore the given statement is True.

Henry Thomas Colebrooke was a Sanskrit scholar and orientalist. He described the pathetic conditions of the under-tenants of Bengal in 1806. According to him, the under-tenants were depressed by excessive rent, and they can never free themselves from debt because of their landlord's oppressive terms and conditions.

Both the statements are true but statement II is not correct explanation for the first.

• In 1871, the colonial government in India passed the Criminal Tribes Act. According to this act, some of the tribes were considered as criminal tribes by birth and were restricted to notified village settlements.
  
• British wanted to increase the production of food-grains and commercial crops to meet the requirement of England. So they introduced waste land rules and converted grazing land to cultivated land.
  

Khonds are a Dravidian-speaking tribal people of India. The language spoken by them is Kui language which is a Dravidian language written with Odia script. They are a designated Scheduled Tribe in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and West Bengal