1 Manual of the North Arcot district.
2 Pulikēsin II, the Chālukyan King of Bādāmi.
3 Manual of the Madura district.
4 South Indian Inscriptions, III, 31, page 82.
5 In the Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras.
6 J. Burgess. Archæological Survey. Tamil and Sanskrit Inscriptions, No. 11, p. 150.
7 Ibid. No. 12, p. 152.
8 History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, 1861.
9 Geographical, statistical, and historical description of Hindostan and the adjacent countries, 1820.
10 Ceylon, 1860.
11 South Indian Inscriptions, 1, 86–7, 105, 136, and III, I, 121, 123.
12 Madras Census Report, 1891.
13 Madras Census Report, 1901.
14 Vannikula Vilakkam.
15 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
16 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
17 Vannikula Vilakkam.
18 Gazetteer of the Tanjore district.
19 Manual of the Salem district.
20 Journey through Mysore, Canara, and Malabar.
21 Manual of the North Arcot district.
22 Gazetteer of the Tanjore district.
23 Gazetteer of the Tanjore district.
24 Manual of the North Arcot district.
25 Madras Mail, 1906.
26 Malabar and its Folk, 1900.
27 Manual of Malabar.
28 Madras Mus. Bull., III, 3, 1901.
29 Monograph, Eth. Survey of Cochin.
30 A. Chatterton. Monograph on Tanning and Working in Leather, 1904.
31 Journey through Mysore, etc., 1807.
32 How we teach the Paraiya, 3rd ed., Madras, 1906.
33 Manual of the North Arcot district.
34 Works, 1, 225, foot-note.
35 History of Mysore.
36 Op. cit.
37 Madras Census Report, 1891.
38 Madras Journ. Lit. and Science, XI, 1840.
39 Native Life in Travancore.
40 Yule and Burnell. Hobson-Jobson.
41 Madras Census Report, 1901.
42 Madras Census Report, 1901.
43 Manual of the North Arcot district; Madras Census Report, 1891.
44 Report on the Methods of Capture and Supply of Fish in the Rivers of the Nilgiri district, 1907.
45 Gazetteer of the Malabar district.
46 Gazetteer of Malabar.
47 Madras Census Report, 1881.
48 Madras Mus. Bull., V, 2, 1906.
49 Madras Census Report, 1891.
50 Madras Census Report, 1901.
51 Voyage to the East Indies, 1774 and 1781.
52 Loc. cit.
53 Ind. Ant., III, 1874.
54 The name Black Town was changed to Georgetown to commemorate the visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to Madras in 1906.
55 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
56 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
57 Ind. Ant. II, 1873.
58 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
59 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
60 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
61 Manual of the North Arcot district.
62 A. P. Smith. Malabar Quart. Review, 1904.
63 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
64 Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs, 1897.
65 Manual of the North Arcot district.
66 Op. cit.
67 Gazetteer of the South Arcot district.
68 Madras Census Report, 1871.
69 Monograph Eth. Survey. Cochin.
70 Malabar and its Folk, 1900.
71 Journ. Roy. As. Soc., XVI.
72 C.M. Record, 1850.
73 Origin and History of the Paravas. Simon Casie Chitty. Journ. Roy. As. Soc., IV, 1837.
74 Occasional Essays on Native South Indian Life, 1901.
75 A description of ye East India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, 1703.
76 History of Tinnevelly.
77 Report on the Indian Pearl Fisheries in the Gulf of Manaar, 1905.
78 Shell of the gastropod mollusc, Turbinella rapa.
79 “This,” Mr. Hornell writes, “is most improbable. They are more probably the descendants of Naga fishermen settled in the district prior to the immigration of Tamil invaders.”
80 The Zamorin of Calicut.
81 Madras Mail, 1907.
82 Risley. Tribes and Castes of Bengal.
83 Gazetteer of the Malabar district.
84 Manual of the North Arcot district.
85 Madras Mail, 1907.
86 By the Saurāshtra Literary Societies of Madura and Madras, 1891.
87 Gazetteer of the Madura district.
88 A reddish geological formation, found all over Southern India.
89 Manual of the South Canara district.
90 Letters from Madras. By a Lady, 1843.
91 My Indian Journal, 1864.
92 Our Viceregal Life in India, 1889.
93 Roe and Fryer. Travels in India in the seventeenth century.
94 See Civil Suit No. 102 of 1880.
95 Manual of the South Canara district.
96 Madras Census Report, 1901.
97 Manuals of Nellore and Kurnool.
98 Manual of Malabar.
99 Malabar Quarterly Review. V, 4, 1907.
100 Yule and Burnell. Hobson-Jobson.
101 This note is from an account by Mr. N. Subramani Aiyar.
102 Gazetteer of the Malabar district.
103 Malabar Law and Custom.
104 Ibid.
105 Hobson-Jobson.
106 Manual of the South Canara district.
107 Madras Census Report, 1891.
108 Linguistic Survey of India, IV, 1906.
109 Ind. Ant., II, 1873.
110 Loc. cit.
111 Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam district.
112 Gazetteer of the Tanjore district.
113 Manual of the North Arcot district.
114 Men and Women of India, February 1906.
115 Malabar and its Folk, 1900.
116 This account is mainly based on a note by Mr. L. K. Anantha Krishna Aiyar.
117 Madras Census Report, 1891.
118 Manual of the Vizagapatam district.
119 Manual of Malabar.