ஞாயிறு, 19 மார்ச், 2023

The Social Structure of Tanjore

 In the “non-Brahman village ”’, the land is owned by joint families of a street of non-Brahmans, usually of one of the “ higher” non-Brahman castes of Vellalar or Kallar. Some land may be then leased to other, “ lower caste’? non-Brahmans, or more