Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7

by Edgar Thurston

[44] Op. cit.

[45] Illustrated Criminal Investigation and Law Digest, I, 3, 1908, Vellore.

[46] Madras Journ. Lit. Science, XXV.

[47] I am informed that only Mēl-nādu, Sīrukudi, Mella-kōttai, and Puramalai are endogamous.

[48] Madras Census Report, 1891.

[49] Manual of the Madura district.

[50] Hindu Feasts, Fasts, and Ceremonies, 1903.

[51] The Tamils eighteen hundred years ago, 1904.

[52] Madras Census Report, 1901.

[53] Gazetteer of the Tanjore district.