CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIA By EDGAR THURSTON, C.I.E., Superintendent, Madras Government Museum; Correspondant Étranger, Société d'Anthropologie de Paris; Socio Corrispondante, Societa, Romana di Anthropologia. Assisted by K. Rangachari, M.A., of the Madras Government Museum. Volume VII--T to Z Government Press, Madras 1909. CASTES AND TRIBES OF SOUTHERN INDIA. VOLUME VII. T Tabelu (tortoise).--A sept of Aiyarakulu, and section of Gazula Kapu and Koppala Velama. Taccha Kurup.--Barbers who shave Malabar Kammalans. Tacchan.--The name of the carpenter sub-division of Kammalans, and further returned, at the census, 1891, as an occupational sub-division by some Paraiyans. Taccha Karaiyan has been recorded as a name for some members of the Karaiyan fishing caste. The Tacchasastram, or science of carpentry, prescribes in minute details the rules of construction. Tacchanadan Muppan.--Recorded, in the Madras Census Reports, 1891 and 1901, as a sub-division of Kuricchans, and of Kurumbas of the Nilgiris. Tadan.--See Dasari. Tagara.--A section of Poroja. Takru.--A class of Muhammadan pilots and sailors in the Laccadive islands. (See Mappilla.) Talaivan (a chief).--A title of the Maravans. Jadi or Jati Talaivan is the name of the hereditary chief of the Paravas of Tinnevelly, who, at times of pearl fisheries, receives a fixed share of the 'oysters.' Talamala.--A sub-division of Kanikar. Talayari.--The Talayari (talai, head) or chief watchman, or Uddari (saviour of the village), is a kind of undepartmental village policeman, who is generally known as the Talari. Among other duties, he has to follow on the track of stolen cattle, to act as a guard over persons confined in the village choultry (lock-up), to attend upon the head of the village during the trial of petty cases, to serve processes, and distrain goods. In big villages there are two or three Talayaris, in which case one is a Paraiyan, who officiates in the Paraiya quarter. In parts of the Telugu country, the Mutrachas, who are the village watchmen, are known as Talarivallu, or watchman people, and, in like manner, the Bedars are called Talarivandlu in the Kurnool and Bellary districts.