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This volume presents ethnographic entries on southern Indian castes and tribes from P to S, combining field observations, local traditions, origin legends, ritual practices, temple associations, marriage and funerary rites, occupational notes, and claims of historic descent. It documents ceremonial duties, festivals, legal disputes over ritual rights, and everyday material culture, often citing community-authored tracts and local inscriptions, and is illustrated to support descriptions of social organization, belief systems, and ceremonial life across diverse communities.

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Title: Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7

Author: Edgar Thurston

Contributor: K. Rangachari

Release date: June 21, 2013 [eBook #42996]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIA

CASTES AND TRIBES
OF
SOUTHERN INDIA
BY
EDGAR THURSTON, c.i.e.,
Superintendent, Madras Government Museum; Correspondant Étranger, Société d’Anthropologie de Paris; Socio Corrispondante, Societa, Romana di Anthropologia.
ASSISTED BY K. RANGACHARI, m.a.,
of the Madras Government Museum.
VOLUME VI—P TO S
GOVERNMENT PRESS, MADRAS
1909.