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A structural definition of a folk deity of Tamil Nadessay 1970 • Dumont, Louis
Tamil • Asia > South Asia
This source discusses the nature and multiple identities of the god Aiyanar....A subcaste of south IndiaBook 1957 • Dumont, Louis & Schutze, Frieda
Tamil • Asia > South Asia
In contrast to numerous community reports and village surveys on the Tamil as a whole, this monograph is one of the relatively few comprehensive studies on an entire Hindu subcaste -- the Pramalai Kallar. Although the Kallar long have had popular and...