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appended to their name. Earlier colonial scholars thought it simply meant an "inhabitant of," but more recent scholarship suggests otherwise, meaning the recipients could have been from the Boya community. The early Boyas were thought to have been a tribal community who were gradually acculturated
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into caste society. This is based on evidence from clan names in both inscriptions and in present-day, which seem to be occupational in nature. By the seventh century CE, grants of villages in the
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began to amass large forces of Boya troops. The entirety of
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