Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7Thurston, Edgar
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Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7
Thurston, Edgar
Caste -- India, South; Ethnology -- India, South; India, South -- Social life and customs; Tribes -- India, South
Zonnala (millet: Sorghum vulgare).--Zonnala, or the equivalent
Zonnakuti, has been recorded as an exogamous sept of Kapu. The Koyis
hold a festival when the zonna crop is ready to be cut, at which a
fowl is killed in the field, and its blood sprinkled on a stone set
up for the purpose.
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NOTES
[1] Ind. Ant. IV, 1875.
[2] Manners, Customs, and Observances.
[3] Malabar Law and Custom, 1905.
[4] Tarwad: a marumakkathayam family, consisting of all the descendants
in the female line of one common female ancestor.
[5] The Todas, 1906.
[6] Malabar Law and Custom.
[7] Madras Census Report, 1891.
[8] Ind. Ant., VIII, 1879.
[9] Gazetteer of Malabar.
[10] Monograph Eth. Survey, Cochin No. 1, 1905.
[11] Ind. Ant., IX, 1880.
[12] Ind. Ant., IX. 1880.
[13] F. S. Mullaly. Criminal Classes of the Madras Presidency.
[14] Monograph, Eth. Survey, Bombay, No. 93, Tigala, 1907.
[15] Malabar Law and Custom.
[16] Lieutenant-General E. F. Burton. An Indian Olio.
[17] Monograph Ethnog. Survey of the Cochin State, No. 10, Izhuvas,
1905.
[18] The Tinnevelly Shanars, 1849.
[19] Madras Census Report, 1871.
[20] A fanam is a small gold coin, worth about four annas, which was
formerly current in Southern India, but is no longer in circulation.
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