The Paniyas, an Ex-slave Tribe of South IndiaStudy on the social life of the Paniya tribe in Wayanad, Kerala. |
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... Mysore in the east penetrated into the Wynad country . As labour was scarce in Wynad , the farming immigrants found it con- venient to enslave the native tribals whose subjugation became total . Primitive food gatherers that they were ...
... Mysore in the east penetrated into the Wynad country . As labour was scarce in Wynad , the farming immigrants found it con- venient to enslave the native tribals whose subjugation became total . Primitive food gatherers that they were ...
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... Mysore border contanins the frag- ment of an inscription of the Kudumbiya clan of Mysore . ( 5-6 th century A. D. ) . In the political geography of about the 8th century A. D. Wynad was called Karka Nad ( meaning country difficult of ...
... Mysore border contanins the frag- ment of an inscription of the Kudumbiya clan of Mysore . ( 5-6 th century A. D. ) . In the political geography of about the 8th century A. D. Wynad was called Karka Nad ( meaning country difficult of ...
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... Mysore , though degraded , were much better off than those of Kerala . The master did not have the de jure right over the life of the slave . Edward Harper has described the survival of the practice in the north - western Malnad area of ...
... Mysore , though degraded , were much better off than those of Kerala . The master did not have the de jure right over the life of the slave . Edward Harper has described the survival of the practice in the north - western Malnad area of ...
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