The Cochin Tribes And Castes : With Illustrations (Volume 2) / Anantha Krishna Iyer. L.K

Owing to ill-health my erudite friend, Professor A.H. Keane, was unable to write the introduction to the second volume of Mr. L.K. Anantha Krishna Iyer’s monograph, “The Cochin Tribes and Castes”, and at a somewhat late date I was requested to do so. Those who have studied the earlier Volume of this enthusiastic and energetic ethnologist will cordially welcome the continuation of his ethnographic researches. The first volume gives a descriptive account of the hill and jungle tribes and other low castes of the State in the ascending order of social status. These backward jungle folk have a peculiar interest for ethnologists as they appear to retain many of the customs and beliefs which we may well suppose characterised mankind in very ancient times; they are ethnological survivals which bear the same relation to anthropology as that borne to zoology by those generalised or persistent types dating from geological antiquity in various groups of animals that rejoice the heart of the zoologist.The present volume deals with other groups, higher in social grade but not of less interest or importance for the student, for the State of Cochin is fortunate in possessing an assemblage of tribes and castes which is without parallel elsewhere in an area of equal size.

Contents: Contents: Chapter 1 - The Sudras of Cochin, Chapter II - The Sudras of Cochin, Chapter III - The Sudras of Cochin, Chapter IV - The Sudras of Cochin, Chapter V - The Sudras of Cochin, Chapter VI - The Sudras of Cochin, Chapter VII - The Ambalavasis, Chapter VIII - The Kshatriyas, Chapter IX - The Brahmans, Chapter X - The Brahmans, Chapter XI - The Brahmans, Chapter XII - The Tamil Brahmans, Chapter XIII - The Embrans and The Konkani Brahmans, Chapter XIV - The Non-Indigenous Castes, Chapter XV - The Jews, Chapter XVI - The Syrian Christians, Chapter XVII - The Jonakan Mappillas.Castes, Chapter XIV - The Fishing Castes (Cont.), Chapter XV - The Izhuvans, Chapter XVI - The Izhuvans (Cont.), Chapter XVII - The Izhuvans (Cont.), Chapter XVIII - The Kammalans.