[25] S. P. Rice, “Occasional Essays on Native South Indian Life,” 1901, 95–6.

[26] Jeypore, Breklum, 1901.

[27] F. Fawcett, “Note on the Koravas,” 1908.

[28] Fire-walking, see Thurston, “Ethnographic Notes in Southern India,” 1907, 471–86.

[29] Udaya is one of the divisions of the Badagas, which ranks as superior to the other divisions.

[30] Koyis, see Cain, Madras Christian College Magazine (old series), v. 352–9, and vi. 274–80; also “Ind. Ant.,” v., 1876, and viii., 1879.

[31] “Gazetteer of the South Arcot District,” 1906, i. 98.

[32] Madras Museum Bull., 1907, No. 3, v. 166.

[33] “Manual of the Cuddapah District,” 1875, 291.

[34] The Holeyas were formerly agrestic serfs.