[11] Logan’s Malabar Manual, vol. i. p. 141. [↑]
[12] See Malabar Marriage Commission and Wigram’s Malabar Law and Custom, 2nd ed., Madras, 1900. [↑]
[13] Census of India, 1901, vol. i., Eth. App., p. 136. [↑]
[15] Madras Gov. Museum Bull., iii. p. 247. [↑]
[17] Ibid., p. 61. See also Dubois, Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies, Oxford, 1899, p. 17. [↑]
[18] Madras Museum Bull., iii. p. 242. [↑]
[19] Cf. Caldwell, A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian or South-Indian Family of Languages, 2nd ed., London, 1875, p. 23. [↑]
[20] It is perhaps worth noting that at present only Teivali diviners are reputed to speak Malayalam. [↑]