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THIS Monograph, The Dravidians, is the second of a five-volume sub-series entitled Social History of Kerela in the MONOGRAPHS ON MAN IN INDIA Series which will bring to specialists and amateurs the results of modern anthropological research in India. Important among Kerela's Dravidian castes are the Nayars, Izhavas, Mukkuvans, Vellalas, and Kammalars. The author deals with their migration to the State, and the problem of spread of culture from Kerela across the ...
Kerela-nestling between the foamy coastline of the Arabian Sea and the tall mountain ranges of the Western Ghats-has in her population people of various grades of civilisation, from the most primitive to the most highly advanced, and is of peculiar interest to students of anthropology. In this monograph, the first of a five-volume series entitled Social History of Kerela, L.A. Krishna Iyer deals with its earliest inhabitants-the hill tribes who have been ...