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Notes
- ↑ Susan Bayly has noted of the Vellalar communities generally that "they were never a tighly-knit community ... In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Vellala affiliation was a vague and uncertain as that of most other south Indian caste groups. Vellala identity was certainly thought of as a source of prestige, but for that very reason there were any number of groups who sought to claim Vellala status for themselves". [5]
Citations
- ↑ Gough (1982), p. 19
- 1 2 Gough (1982), pp. vii, 358
- ↑ "3". Census Book of India 1961 (in Tamil). Vol. 9 North Arcot District. Madras: The Director of stationery and Printing, Madras. 1961. p. 31.
- ↑ Neild (1979)
- ↑ Bayly (2004), p. 411
- ↑ Gough (1982), p. 25
- ↑ Stein, Burton (1980). Peasant State and Society in Medieval South India. Delhi: Oxford University Press. p. 319. ISBN 978-0-19-563507-2.:”The Gangadikara peasantry of Gangavadi appears to have been more significantly linked to the Kongu peasantry to the south than to peasant peoples in the central and northern parts of medieval Karnataka. Similarly, the Marasu Vokkaligas of eastern Bangalore and central and southern Kolar districts appear to have been linked to Tondaimandalam”
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- Gough, Kathleen (1982). Rural Society in South East Asia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52104-019-8.
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