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[219] In Southern India, turmeric (Curc.u.ma) is commonly called saffron (Crocus).

[220] "Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District," 1907, i. 75.

[221] Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v., No. 3, 134.

[222] Ibid., 171.

[223] "An Indian Olio," 79-80.

[224] "Gazetteer of the Nilgiris," 1908, i. 340.

[225] "The Tinnevelly Shanars," 1849.

[226] Madras Dioc. Mag., March, 1903.

[227] Rev. J. Cain, "Ind. Ant.," 1879, viii. 219.

[228] "Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies,' translation by H. K. Beauchamp, 1897, i. 143.

[229] "Gazetteer of the Anantapur District," 1905, i. 198.

[230] "Gazetteer of the South Arcot District," 1906, i. 93.

[231] "Gazetteer of the South Arcot District," 1906, i. 92-3.

[232] "Goa and the Blue Mountains," 1851, 339.

[233] "Gazetteer of the Bellary District," 1904, i. 60.

[234] F. Fawcett, Madras Museum Bull., 1901, iii., No. 3, 307.

[235] "Malabar," 1887, i. 175.

[236] "Malabar," 1887, i. 175.

[237] M. J. Walhouse, "Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 23.

[238] F. Fawcett, Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, i. 260.

[239] "Manual of the Kurnool District," 1886, 116.

[240] Tennent, "Ceylon," 1860, i. 145.

[241] "Manual of the Cuddapah District," 1875, 292.

[242] Madras Mail, 26th January, 1906.

[243] Madras Museum Bull., 1900, iii., No. 1, 41.

[244] Madras Museum Bull., 1901, iii., No. 3, 195-6.

[245] Madras Dioc. Mag., July, 1905.

[246] Rev. A. C. Clayton, Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 86.

[247] Journ. Anthrop. Inst., 1890, xix., 56.

[248] Madras Christian Coll. Mag., January, 1907, vi. No. 7.

[249] Rev. A. C. Clayton, Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 66.

[250] "The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian," translation, 3rd ed., 1903, ii. 332.

[251] The pearl fisheries are conducted from Tuticorin in the Tinnevelly district.

[252] "Ceylon," 1860, ii. 564-5.

[253] "The Golden Bough," 1900, ii. 241 et seq. Bibliography of human sacrifice among the Kondhs, see Thurston, "Castes and Tribes of Southern India," 1909, iii. 412-5.

[254] "Selections from the Records of the Government of India,"

No. v., Suppression of human sacrifice and infanticide, 1854. The subject of Meriah sacrifice is also dealt with by F. E. Penny, in her novel ent.i.tled "Sacrifice," 1910.

[255] "Personal Narrative of Service among the Wild Tribes of Khondistan," 1864.

[256] "The People of India," 1908, 62.

[257] "Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District," 1907, i. 202.

[258] "Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District," 1907, i. 262-3.

[259] Madras Weekly Mail, 6th June, 1894.

[260] "Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 359.

[261] Madras Christian Coll. Mag., 1887-88, v. 357.

[262] "Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District," 1907, i. 202.

[263] "Hindu Manners, Customs, and Ceremonies," translation by H. K. Beauchamp, 1897, i. 70-1.

[264] "Ind. Ant.," 1879, viii. 219.

[265] Infanticide, see Thurston, "Ethnographic Notes in Southern India," 1907, 502-9.

[266] Marshall, "A Phrenologist amongst the Todas," 1873, 195.

[267] Ellis, "History of Madagascar."

[268] "The Village Deities of Southern India," Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v. 3, 137, 186.