Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7

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 VII—T to Z Government Press, Madras 1909.

Tābēlu (tortoise).—A sept of Aiyarakulu, and section of Gāzula Kāpu and Koppala Velama.
Taccha Kurup. —Barbers who shave Malabar Kammālans.
Tacchan. —The name of the carpenter sub-division of Kammālans, and further returned, at the census, 1891, as an occupational sub-division by some Paraiyans. Taccha Karaiyān has been recorded as a name for some members of the Karaiyān fishing caste. The Tacchasāstram, or science of carpentry, prescribes in minute details the rules of construction.
Tacchanādan Mūppan. —Recorded, in the Madras Census Reports, 1891 and 1901, as a sub-division of Kuricchans, and of Kurumbas of the Nīlgiris.
Tādan. — See Dāsari.
Tagara. —A section of Poroja.
Takru. —A class of Muhammadan pilots and sailors in the Laccadive islands. ( See Māppilla.)