1 Folk-songs of Southern India.
2 Manual of the Nilagiri district.
3 The Todas, 1906.
4 Account of the Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilagiris, 1873.
5 Gazetteer of the Nilgiris.
6 Madras Christian College Magazine, 1892.
7 Gazetteer of the Nilgiris.
8 Manual of Coorg.
9 Pioneer, 4th October 1907.
10 Description of a singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the summit of the Neilgherry Hills.
11 The Todas, 1906.
12 Op. cit.
13 Op. cit.
14 Madras Mail, 1907.
15 The bridge spanning the river of death, which the blessed cross in safety.
16 Report, Government Botanic Gardens, Nilgiris, 1903.
17 E. Schmidt. Reise nach Sudindien, 1894.
18 The World’s Peoples, 1908.
19 H. H. Wilson, Essays and Lectures, chiefly on the Religion of the Hindus, 1862.
20 Hindu Castes and Sects.
21 The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India, 1903.
22 Madras Census Report, 1901.
23 Madras Census Report, 1901.
24 Madras Census Report, 1891.
25 A Native: Pen and Ink Sketches of South India.
26 Madras Census Report, 1891.
27 Manual of the S. Canara district.
28 Yule and Burnell. Hobson-Jobson.
29 Calcutta Review.
30 Indian Review, VII, 1906.
31 See G. Krishna Rao. Treatise on Aliya Santāna Law and Usage, Mangalore, 1898.
32 Calcutta Review.
33 Malabar Law and Custom, 3rd ed., 1905.
34 The Law of Partition and Succession, from the text of Varadaraja’s Vyavaharaniranya by A. C. Burnell (1872).
35 Calcutta Review.
36 Report of the Malabar Marriage Commission, 1891.
37 Mysore and Coorg Gazetteer.
38 Rev. J. Cain, Ind. Ant., V, 1876.
39 M. Paupa Rao Naidu. The Criminal Tribes of India. No. III, Madras, 1907.
40 Op. cit.
41 Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Bāwariya, 1906.
42 Tribes and Castes of Bengal, 1891.
43 Journey through Mysore, Canara and Malabar, 1807.
44 Gentu or Gentoo is “a corruption of the Portuguese Gentio, gentile or heathen, which they applied to the Hindus in contradistinction to the Moros or Moors, i.e., Mahommedans. It is applied to the Telugu-speaking Hindus specially, and to their language.” Yule and Burnell, Hobson-Jobson.
45 Historical Sketches of the South of India: Mysore, 1810–17.
46 By law, to constitute dacoity, there must be five or more in the gang committing the crime. Yule and Burnell, op. cit.
47 Circumcision is practised by some Kallans of the Tamil country.
48 Madras Mail, 1902.
49 Mysore Census Report, 1901.
50 Madras Mail, 1905.
51 Op. cit.
52 Manual of the South Canara district.
53 Agricultural Ledger Series, Calcutta, No. 7, 1904.
54 Jeypore. Breklum, 1901.
55 Manual of the North Arcot district.
56 Madras Census Report, 1891.
57 Op. cit.
58 Taylor. Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental Manuscripts.
59 Madras Census Report, 1901.
60 Journey from Madras through Mysore, Canara and Malabar.
61 Ind. Ant. XVIII, 1889.
62 Hobson-Jobson.
63 Decadas de Asia.
64 J. S. F. Mackenzie, Ind. Ant. IV, 1875.
65 Madras Census Report, 1901.
66 Sanskrit hymn repeated a number of times during daily ablutions.
67 Manual of the North Arcot district.
68 J. S. F. Mackenzie, Ind. Ant. IV, 1875.
69 See F. S. Mullaly. Notes on Criminal Classes of the Madras Presidency.
70 History of Railway Thieves, Madras, 1904.
71 Manual of the North Arcot district.
72 Occasional Essays on Native South Indian Life.
73 Gazetteer of the Central Provinces, 1870.
74 Report of the Ethnological Committee of the Central Provinces.
75 Wilson. Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms.
76 Manual of Malabar.
77 Devil worship of the Tuluvas, Ind. Ant. XXIII, XXIV, and XXV, 1894–96.
78 Occasional Essays on Native South Indian Life.
79 Madras Mail, 1905.
80 Madras Census Report, 1901.
81 Manual of the Vizagapatam district.
82 Manual of the North Arcot district.
83 Manual of the Ganjam district.
84 Madras Census Report, 1891.
85 Manual of the North Arcot district.
86 Religious Thought and Life in India.
87 Christianity and Caste, 1893.
88 In the Vēdic verse the word used for my brothers literally means your husbands.
89 A hōtri is one who presides at the time of sacrifices.
90 Madras Christian College Magazine, March, 1903.
91 Religious Thought and Life in India.
92 See Thurston, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India, 1906, pp. 229–37.
93 Op. cit.
94 Watt, Dict. Economic Products of India.
95 Viaggio all’ Indie orientali, 1672.
96 See Note on the Tulsi Plant. Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, VIII, I, 1907.
97 Madras Mail, 1906.
98 Hobson-Jobson.
99 Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan, 1891.
100 Oriental Commerce.
101 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
102 Collection of the Decisions of High Courts and the Privy Council on the Hindu Law of Marriage and the Effect of Apostacy after marriage. Madras, 1891.
103 Madras Mail, 1904.
104 Ind. Ant. III, 1874.
105 Ind. Ant. III, 1874.
106 Mysore and Coorg Gazetteer, 1877.
107 Said to be derived from ma, a negation, and arka, sun, in allusion to their not performing the adoration of that luminary which is customary among Brāhmans.
108 Brahmanism and Hinduism.
109 Manual of the South Canara district.
110 Fraser’s Magazine, May 1875.
111 Loc. cit.
112 Indian Review, VII, 1906.
113 Madras Mail, 1907.
114 J. S. F. Mackenzie, Ind. Ant., IV, 1875.
115 Madras Census Report, 1901.