Description
Volume Nine (originally numbered vol. 4, no. 3) noticessome marriage customs in southern India; deformity and mutilation; Uralis, Sholagas, and Irulas; fire walking in Ganjam; and, corporal punishments in vernacular schools. In the following account of various forms of marriage ceremonial in Southern India the author has attempted to bring together the mass of valuable information relating thereto, which, for the most part, lies buried in manuals, gazetteers, census reports, etc., in the hope that it may be of some slight use to those who have made a special study of marriage in many lands. At the outset he may appropriately quote the account of the Brahman marriage ceremony as given in the Census report, 1891, to show how the Brahman ritual has been grafted on the nonBrahman community. The book is the product of extensive study of this topic. This volume has six plates, and was first published in 1903.
