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Title: Castes and tribes of southern India. Assisted by K. Rangachari
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Thurston, Edgar, 1855-1935 Rangachari, K
Subjects: Caste -- India Madras (Presidency) Ethnology -- India Madras (Presidency) India -- Social conditions
Publisher: Madras Government Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eck, as a charm to ward off fever and otherdiseases. Some of the men have the hair of the headhanging down in matted tails in performance of a vow.The men wear brass, steel, and copper rings on theirfingers and brass rings in the ears. The women, in like manner, wear finger rings, and,in addition, bangles on the wrist, and have the lobes ofthe ears widely dilated, and plugged with cadjan (palmleal) rolls. In some the nostril is pierced, and pluggedwith wood. The Paniyans, who dwell in settlements at the baseof the ghats, make fire by what is known as the Malayor sawing method A piece of bamboo, about a foot inlength, in which two nodes are included, is split longi-tudinally into two equal parts. On one half a sharp edgeis cut with a knife. In the other a longitudinal slit ismade through about two-thirds of its length, which isstuffed with a piece of cotton cloth. It is then heldfirmly on the ground with its convex surface upwards,and the cutting edge drawn, with a gradually quickening
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y, ■n X 71 PANJUKKARA sawing motion, rapidly to and fro across it by two men,until the cloth is ignited by the incandesent particles ofwood in the groove cut by the sharp edge. The cloth isthen blown with the lips into a blaze, and the tobacco orcooking fire can be lighted. At Pudupadi an elephant mahout was jealouslyguarding a bit of bamboo stick with notches cut in it,each notch representing a day for which wages weredue to him. The stick in question had six notches,representing six days wages. Average height i574 cm. Nasal index 95 (max.io86). The average distance from the tip of the middlefinger to the top of the patella was 46 cm. relative tostature = 100, which approximates very closely to therecorded results of measurement of long-limbed Africannegroes. Panjai.^Recorded, in the Madras Census Report,1901, as a sub-division of Pandya Vellala. The namePanjai, indicating a poverty-stricken individual, is usuallyapplied to mendicant Pandarams, Panjaram.—Panjaram or Pancharamkatt

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