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Excerpt from Castes and Tribes, Vol. 4: Of Southern IndiaThe Koronos are worshippers of Vishnu. Their cere monies are performed with the aid of Brahman priests.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

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Excerpt from Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of ManaarThe ocypode burrows in the dry soil, making deep excava tions, bringing up literally armfuls of sand, which, with a spring in the air, and employing its other limbs, it jerks far from its burrows, distributing it in a circle to the distance of several feet. So inconvenient are the Operations of these industrious pests that men are kept constantly employed...

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Excerpt from Coins: Catalogue No. 1, Mysore, With Eleven PlatesIN issuing the present catalogue, I have to gratefully acknow ledge the assistance which I received, in writing the Intro duction, from Mr. Lewis Rice's Mysore Gazetteer and Colonel H. P. Hawkes' Coins of Mysore, of which the latter, published in 1856, is -now very scarce. From both these sources I have, in many cases, copied extracts verbatim.To Captain R. H. Campbell Tufnell, I a...

Excerpt from A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's Flora of CornwallWe have to express our great indebtedness especially to the Journal of Botany, and the Reports of the Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the =british Isles, and Watson Botanical Exchange Club, which have been liberally indented on.For permission to reproduce the portrait of Davey we are indebted to the Watson Botanical Exchange Club.About the PublisherForgotten Books publish...

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Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 1: An and BSociety of Bengal, I commenced an investiga tion of the tribes of the Nilgiri hills, the Todas, Kotas, and Badagas, bringing down on myself the unofficial criticism that anthropological research at high altitudes is eminently indicated when the thermo meter registers 100° in Madras. From this modest beginning have resulted - (i) investigation of various classes which inhabit the...

Excerpt from Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills: And of the Bráhmans, Kammálans, Pallis, and Pariahs of Madras CityA curious people are the Todas or Tudas, to whom the most sacred objects on this earth are a holy dairy-man (palal) and a large-horned race of semi-domesticated buffaloes, on whose milk and the products thereof (butter and ney 1) they still depend largely, though to a less extent than in bygone days, before t...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Batrachia Salientia and Apoda (Frogs, Toads, and Coecilians) Of Southern India: Illustrated by Thirteen PlatesOur knowledge of the rarer species of the Batrachians, which inhabit our Presidency, is mainly derived from the field labours of the late Mr. Jerdon and Colonel Beddome, by whom the majority of the specimens in the British Museum were presented.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thous...

Excerpt from Pearl and Chank Fisheries: Of the Gulf of ManaarIn 1890, my Notes on the Pearl and Chan]: Fisheries and Marine Fauna. Of the Gulf of Manaar were published in a single volume, and a friendly critic pointed out that the effect thereof was somewhat marred by their publication together, and by the arrangement adopted.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotte...

Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 2: C to JAs a sept of the Sale weavers, it probably has reference to the gruel, or size, which is applied to the warp.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 7: T to ZTéli. - The tali, Bishop Caldwell writesfi is the Hindu sign of marriage, answering to the ring of European Christendom. I have known a clergyman refuse to perform a marriage with a tali, and insist upon a ring being used instead. A little consideration will show that the scrupulous conscience can find no rest for itself even in the ring for, if the ring is more Christian than the...

Excerpt from Omens and Superstitions of Southern IndiaIn the category of good omens among the Nayars of Travancore, are placed the elephant, a pot full of water.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving t...

Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 6: P to SThe name Vanniyan is, Mr. H. A. Stuart writesfif derived from the Sanskrit yanbi (fire) in consequence of the following legend. In the olden times, two giants named Vatapi and Mahi, worshipped Brahma with such devotion that they obtained from him immunity from death from every cause save fire, which element they had carelessly omitted to include in their enumeration. Protected thu...

Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 5: M to PMai-an or Méréyan. - The Maiayans are summed up, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as being temple servants and drummers in Malabar. Like many of the Malabar castes, they must have come from the east coast, as their name frequently occurs in the Tanjore inscriptions of 1013 a.d. They followed then the same occupation as that by which they live to-day, and appear to have held a to...

Excerpt from Ethnographic Notes in Southern India: With 40 PlatesSome of the articles, originally published in my Museum Bulletins, are now reproduced with additions.I may add that the chapter devoted to omens, evil eye, etc 18 intended only as a mere outline sketch of a group of subjects, which, if worked up in detail, would furnish material for a very bulky volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...