The Santals are very keen shikaris, and go regularly to hunt armed with bows and arrows and a few guns.

The Santals are a Munda tribe, a branch of that aboriginal element which probably entered India from the North East.

They are one of those Kolarian tribes of which the Santals are perhaps the best known.

The Santals are great story tellers; the old folk of the village gather the young people round them in the evening and tell them stories, and the men when watching the crops on the threshing floor will often sit up all night telling stories.