Writing concerning the Iluvedalani (Illuvellani) Kammas, the editor of the Kurnool Manual (1886) states that "a few families only exist in the district. The women are kept in strict gosha. They consider it beneath them to spin thread, or to do other work. A sub-division of this caste lives in Pullalcheruvu, whose families, also gosha, work at the spindles, like other women of the country. Another class of indoor Kammas resides about Owk. They are apparently descendants of the Kammas, who followed the Naiks from Guntur to Gandikota in the sixteenth century. They are now reduced, and the females work, like Kapus, in the field. The Gampas are distinguished from the indoor Kammas by their women wearing the cloth over the right, instead of the left shoulder." As with other Telugu castes, there are, among the Kammas, a number of exogamous septs or intiperu, of which the following are examples:-- Anumollu, Dolichos Lablab. Tsanda, tax or subscription. Jasthi, too much. Mallela, jasmine. Lanka, island. Thota kura, Amarantus gangetícus. Komma, horn, or branch of a tree. Cheni, dry field. Palakala, planks. Kasturi, musk. Baththala, rice. Karnam, accountant. Irpina, combs. Gali, wind. Dhaniala, coriander. The Kammas also have gotras such as Chittipoola, Kurunollu, Kulakala, Uppala, Cheruku (sugar-cane), Vallotla, and Yenamalla. When matters affecting the community have to be decided, a council of the leading members thereof assembles. But, in some places, there is a permanent headman, called Mannemantri or Chaudri. The Kammas will work as coolies in the fields, but will, on no account, engage themselves as domestic servants. "They are," the Rev. J. Cain writes, [63] "as a rule a fine well-built class of cultivators, very proud and exclusive, and have a great aversion to town life. Many of them never allow their wives to leave their compounds, and it is said that many never do field work on Sundays, but confine themselves on that day to their house-work." "If," a correspondent writes from the Kistna district, "you ask in a village whether so-and-so is a Brahman, and they say 'No. He is an asami (ordinary man),' he will be a Kamma or Kapu. If you ask how many pay income-tax in a village, they may tell you two Baniyas (merchants), and two Samsari-vallu, i.e., two prosperous Kamma ryots."