To Hunter the Santals and the hillmen of the western frontier of Bengal were a ‘manly race’.
It's a new unit, modelled after the tactics of the hillmen they've been fighting.
A petition from a discontented hillman evocatively recalled a golden age when the villagers had full control over their forest habitat.
The richest pilgrims were carried up in wooden palanquins by tough, wiry hillmen.
Southern Army has been spread out chasing hillmen and guarding caravans.
‘Don't worry about her, lass,’ she said, a faint tinge of hillmen's brogue in her speech, ‘she's a healthy girl, and she'll heal quickly.’
The other side of the valley is harassed by the hillmen from the surrounding mountains.
The hillmen usually found their way into the 17th Dogra Regiment, the 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, the 19th Hyderabad Regiment, and into Dogra companies in Punjabi regiments.