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AN ethnographical gazetteer loses half its value if it lacks an index ; but the appendix which the late Dr. Ananthakrishna Iyer had added to the four volumes of his “Mysore Tribes and Castes” makes an even more generous provision for the needs of the student. In addition to index and bibliography, his supplementary volume includes a glossary of vernacular terms, and lists of endogamous groups and exogamous clans. Attention is directed to the evidence to be found in these lists of the tendency of endogamous groups to increase, notwithstanding attempts made to bring about union, and the disappearance of totems in favour of gotras of Puranic heroes.
Appendix to the Four Volumes of the “Mysore Tribes and Castes” (Index and Bibliography)
By Diwan Bahadur Dr. L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer. Pp. iv + 70. (Mysore: Mysore University, 1936.)
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Appendix to the Four Volumes of the “Mysore Tribes and Castes” (Index and Bibliography). Nature 141, 310 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141310b0
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