1 Malabar Law and Custom, 3rd ed., 1905.
2 Father Coleridge’s Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier.
3 History of Tinnevelly.
4 Indian Medical Gazette, XLI, 8, 1906.
5 Cochin Census Report, 1901.
6 Madras Census Report, 1901.
7 Mysore Census Report, 1891.
8 Madras Census Report, 1901.
9 N. Sankuni Wariar, Ind. Ant. XXI, 1892.
10 Gazetteer of the Madura district.
11 Madras Census Report, 1901.
12 Ibid., 1891.
13 Gazetteer of the Tanjore district.
14 Gazetteer of the Madura district.
15 The land of the Permauls, or Cochin, its past and its present, 1863.
16 Manual of the Madura district.
17 Manual of the Madura district.
18 Madras Census Report, 1891, and Manual of the North Arcot district.
19 See Divakaram and Chudamani Nikhandu.
20 See Life of Tiruvalluvar, in Lazarus’ edition of the Kural.
21 Madras Census Report, 1891.
22 Gazetteer of Malabar.
23 Manual of the South Canara District.
24 Madras Census Report, 1901.
25 Manual of the North Arcot district.
26 Madras Census Report, 1901.
27 Manual of the Tanjore district.
28 Manual of the North Arcot district; Madras Census Report, 1891.
29 Madras Census Report, 1901.
30 Malabar and its Folk, 1900.
31 Madras Dioc: Magazine, 1906.
32 Manual of Malabar.
33 Madras Museum Bull. III, 3. 1901.
34 Manual of the Salem district.
35 Native Life in Travancore.
36 Madras Museum, Bull. III, I, 1900.
37 Crawley. The Mystic Rose. Fide Jagor. Zeitsch: Ethnol. XI, 164.
38 Manual of the North Arcot district.
39 Ind. Ant. VIII, 1879.
40 History of the Military Transactions in Indostan.
41 Ind. Ant. VIII, 1879.
42 Ind. Ant. XX, 1891.
43 Monograph Eth. Survey of Cochin, No. 12, 1907.
44 Madras Museum Bull. III, 3, 1901.
45 Rev. J. Cain, Ind. Ant., VIII, 1879.
46 Madras Census Report, 1891, and Manual of the North Arcot District.
47 Madras Journal of Literature and Science, 188–788, p. 134, where the etymology of the name Vellāla is fully discussed.
48 Section III. Inhabitants, Government Press, Madras, 1907.
49 Thondai-nandalap-paddiyam.
50 The zamindars of Cheyur, Chunampet, etc., in the Chingleput district.
51 Manual of the Madura district.
52 Pen and Ink Sketches of South India.
53 Madras Census Report, 1901.
54 M. Paupa Rao Naidu. History of Railway Thieves, 1900.
55 Ind. Ant. III, 1874.
56 Madras Census Report, 1891.
57 Baramahal Records.
58 Manual of the Madura district.
59 Manual of the Madura district.
60 Manual of the North Arcot district.
61 Manual of the Madura district.
62 Madras Museum Bull., V. 3, 1907.
63 Manual of the Salem district, 1883.
64 A. Chatterton. Monograph on Tanning and Working in Leather, 1904.
65 Madras Mail, 1907.
66 Ibid.
67 Malabar and its Folk, 1900.
68 Monograph, Ethnological Survey of Cochin, 1905.
69 Gazetteer of Malabar.
70 Monograph, Eth. Survey of Cochin.