[42] They are found chiefly in the Tamil-speaking districts of Madura, Tinnevelly, Coimbatore, North Arcot and the Nilgiris. [↑]
[43] The Imperial Gazetteer of India (vol. xxiv. p. 47) spells his name Nādir Shāh; Qādir Ḥusayn K͟hān calls him Nathad Vali. [↑]
[44] Madras District Gazetteers. Trichinopoly, vol. i. p. 338. (Madras, 1907.) Qādir Ḥusayn K͟hān: South Indian Musalmans, p. 36. (Madras, 1910.) [↑]
[45] Qādir Ḥusayn K͟hān, pp. 36–8. [↑]
[46] Qādir Ḥusayn K͟hān, op. cit. pp. 39–42. Madras District Gazetteers. Anantapur, vol. i. pp. 193–4. (Madras, 1905.) [↑]
[47] Zayn al-Dīn, pp. 33 (l. 4), 36 (l. 1). [↑]
[48] Innes, p. 190. Census of India, 1911. Vol. xii. Part. I. p. 54. [↑]
[49] Report on the Census of the Madras Presidency, 1871, by W. R. Cornish, pp. 71, 72, 109. (Madras, 1874.) [↑]
[50] Report of the Second Decennial Missionary Conference held at Calcutta 1882–3 (pp. 228, 233, 248). (Calcutta, 1883.) [↑]
[51] Ibn Baṭūṭah, tome iv. p. 128. Ibn Baṭūṭah resided in the Maldive Islands during the years 1343–4 and married “the daughter of a Vizier who was grandson of the Sulṭān Dāʼūd, who was a grandson of the Sulṭān Aḥmad Shanūrāzah” (tome iv. p. 154); from this statement the date A.D. 1200 has been conjectured. [↑]