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Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.)
Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations • (6) • Published In 1940 • Pages: 55-116
By: Natarajan, B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The village of Gangaikondan which lies 2.5 miles northwest of the railway station of the same name in Tinnevelly District, India, is the focus of this socio-economic study. Ethnographic data include information on demography, land use, land tenure, tenancy, agriculture, animal husbandry, taxation, income and production, and castes. Natarajan discusses how these various cultural attributes of the Tamil society have changed with time (from 1881-1937).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Demography
- Castes
- Land use
- Water supply
- Renting and leasing
- Taxation and public income
- Agriculture
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Borrowing and lending
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tamil
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- David Sherwood ; John Beierle ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1881-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Gangaikondan, Tinnevelly District, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- By B. Natarajan
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 48037079
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tamil (Indic people)