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Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 5: M to P Mai-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 ...

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Excerpt from Castes and Tribes of Southern India, Vol. 3Bishop Whitehead has recently* placed on record his experiences of coracles as a means of conveyance. We embarked, he writes, in a boat (at Hampi on the Tungabhadra) which exactly corresponds to my idea of the coracle of the ancient Britons. It consists of a very large, round wicker basket, about eight or nine feet in diameter, covered over with leather, and propelled by paddles. As a rul...

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

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Excerpt from Anthropology of the Todas and Kotas of the Nilgiri Hills: And of the Bráhmans, Kammálans, Pallis, and Pariahs of Madras City A 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...

Amphibia Southern India is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes th...