The Kurumos are a caste of Oriya agriculturists, found mainly in the Russellkonda taluk of Ganjam.
The village of Maliar, in the Hadagalli taluk of the Bellary district, contains a Siva temple, which is famous throughout the district for an annual festival held there in the month of February.
At Mulliakurichi in the Walluwanad taluk there are two mosques.
The recognised head-quarters of the Lingayats in the Bellary district is Ujjini, a village in the south of the Kudligi taluk on the borders of Mysore.
It appears again to a small extent in the Kasaragod taluk 80 miles further south, but no extraction is done there now.
The following legend is current in the Cuddapah district concerning a pool in the Rayachoti taluk called Akkadevatalakolam, or the pool of the holy sisters.
For the following account of a dance at the Bhudevi Pandaga festival at Ankagudem in the Polavaram taluk of the Godavari district, I am indebted to Mr. N.
It is said that the Mutt at Kollepaka no longer exists, and has been replaced by one at Bukkasagar in the Hospet taluk of Bellary district.
In the following year, the disarming of the Ponnani taluk was accomplished.
But, writing concerning the Malaialis of the Dharmapuri taluk of the Salem district, Mr. Le Fanu states that "it is almost imperative on a widow to marry again.
The Koyis, Kois, or Koyas, are a tribe inhabiting the hills in the north of the Godavari district, and are also found in the Malkangiri taluk of the Jeypore Zamindari.
The Tahsildar of Nuzvid, in several villages of which taluk the blanket-weaving industry is carried on, gives me the following note.
There are quartered at the present time at Malappuram in the Ernad taluk a special Assistant Collector, a company of British troops, and a special native police force.
Ilattur in the Shenkottah taluk originally belonged to them, but was afterwards taken over by Travancore in default of payment of the annual subsidy.
A very large portion of Malabar is owned by Nambutiris, especially in Walluvanad, most of which taluk is the property of Nambutiris.
Some Nokkans say that they were presented with copper-grants, one of which is reputed to be in the possession of one Nokka Ramaswami of Mulavayal village in the Ponneri taluk of the Chingleput district.
These people are found only in the Chirakkal talukof Malabar.
In this taluk a rather different organisation is in force, to regulate the supply of labour to the landholders.
This name, denoting a settlement in Nedunganad in the Walluvanad taluk of Malabar, has been returned as a sub-caste of Nayars and Samantas.
Sholiars of other classes are to be found in Vasishtakudy in the taluk of Vriddachallam, Vemmaniathur in the taluk of Villupuram, and Visalur in the taluk of Kumbaconam.
The Ambalakkarans and Muttiriyans of a village in Musiri taluk wrote a joint petition, protesting against their being classified as Kallans, but nevertheless it is said that the Kallans of Madura will not eat in Ambalakkaran's houses.
The Aruvas are an interesting caste of cultivators along the sea-coast in the Berhampur taluk of Ganjam.
In the Kadri taluk of Cuddapah all are said to bury.
The guru is the head of the Ujjani Lingayat matt (religious institution) in the Kudligi taluk of Bellary.
One of these resides in Madras, and the other three live respectively at Poonamallee, Chingleput, and Karunguzhi in the Madurantakam taluk of the Chingleput district.
Nandigama taluk of the Kistna district, the Niyogis are not referred to by the name Brahman, Vaidikis being so called.
A very well-to-do colony of them is to be found in the neighbourhood of Vittal in the Kasaragod taluk, where they grow areca nuts which are valued only second to those grown in the magane of the Coondapoor taluk above the ghauts.
A few Shivallis in the Malayalam-speaking portion of the Kasaragod taluk follow the customs and manners of the Malayalam Brahmins, and amongst these a girl does not lose caste by remaining unmarried until she comes of age.
In the Coondapoor taluk and the northern part of the Udipi taluk, the Kotas occupy a place in the community corresponding to that taken by the Shivallis throughout the rest of the district.
The Alias are an Oriya cultivating caste, found mainly in the Gumsur talukof Ganjam.
Some Havik Brahmins in the Malayalam portion of the Kasaragod taluk have, like the Shivallis in the same locality, adopted the language and customs of the Malayali Brahmins.
A red cloth, intended for the bride, must also be carried by her.
Cause her to beget ten children, and I shall be the eleventh child.
At the funerals, of which we were spectators, no calf was brought near the corpse, and the celebrants of the rites were satisfied with the mere mention by name of a calf, which is male or female according to the sex of the deceased.
This reference to albinos by the observant Abbe may be amplified by the notes taken on several albino Natives in Madras and Mysore, which show, inter alia, that the lot of the present day albino is not an unhappy one.
At marriages, individuals of the Pasupuretti sept officiate as priests, and members of the Koneti sept as drummers and musicians.
They are well known for a generous hospitality on all great occasions, and no poor guest or Brahman mendicant has ever had reason to complain in their houses that he is being served worse than his richer or more influential fellows.
The Bonthuks speak the Oriya language, and they have a Mongoloid type of features, such as are possessed by the Savaras of Ganjam and Vizagapatam.
The Udayas bury their dead in a sitting posture in a cell dug out of the side of the grave, and, like the Irulas, prefer to use a grave in which a previous burial has taken place.
This marriage is sure to be pleasing to Indra, because he gets oblations of food, etc.
The women work as hard as the men, making mats, selling buttermilk, and lending money on their own account, and are declared to be as keen in money-making and usury as their brothers.
The Machi or Myasa Bedas comprise a distinct sub-division, also called the Chunchus.
But their profession is that of chanting the exploits of former days in front of the troops while marshalling them for battle, and inciting them to emulate the glory of their ancestors.
The so-called Kolami, the Bhili spoken in the Pusad taluk of Basim and the so-called Naiki of Chanda agree in so many particulars that they can almost be considered as one and the same dialect.
They are found principally in the Pusad taluk of Yeotmal District, their villages being placed like a line of outposts along the Hyderabad border.
A Dravidian tribe residing principally in the Wun taluk of the Yeotmal District.
Concerning a boundary oath in the Mulkangiri talukof Vizagapatam, Mr C.
In the Melur taluk of the Madura district, it is stated that women who are anxious for offspring vow that, if they attain their wish, they will go and have a cocoanut broken on their head by a priest at the temple of Sendurai.
The Archbishop of Goa was by this recognised as the Patriarch of the East Indies with the Bishop of Cochin as a suffragan, whose diocese in the Cochin State is confined to the seaboard taluk of Cochin.
The rest of the Latin Catholics of this State, except a small section in the Chittur taluk under the Bishop of Coimbatore, are under the Archbishop of Varapuzha.
Most of the weaving is in the hands of Devangas, but the dyeing of the thread is done with imported aniline and alizarine colours by the Balijas of Sigadam in Chipurupalle taluk and Balijapeta in Bobbili.
The headman of the Kumbakonam section lives in the Periyakulam taluk of the Madura district, and, by his order, an image of Siva is worshipped at their homes.
The arrangement of a marriage, and the ceremonial which will now be described, though pertaining strictly to the Calicut taluk of South Malabar, are sufficiently representative of a Tiyan marriage anywhere.
This also holds good, to some extent, in the case of a southern Tiyan visiting the northern parts of the Cherakal taluk of Malabar.
These are the Serkudi nadu in Namakkal taluk and the Omandur nadu of Musiri.
This is the name of a Nambutiri's illam in the Ponani taluk of Malabar.
In ancient times, many of the parts now included in the Todupuzha taluk belonged to the kingdom of Madura.
The Somari, or idle Yanadis, live in the Kavali taluk of that district.
The name denotes a settlement in the Valluvanad taluk of Malabar, and has been returned as a sub-division of Nayar and Samantan, to which the Raja of Valluvanad belongs.
The Solapuram (or Cholapuram) Chettis are apparently called after the village of that name in the Kumbakonam taluk of Tanjore.
Karaikkattans of the Udaiyarpalaiyam taluk are thought to be descended from Jains who were converted to the Hindu faith.
The Perumannans of the Chittur taluk have no knowledge of this illam division existing among them.
It is given to the Forest Officer, who auctions it, and the money obtained is sent to the taluk treasury.
The Pachchilis live in the tract of land called Pachchalur in the Neyyattinkara taluk between Tiruvellam and Kovalam.
The Valluva Pulayan of the Trichur taluk fasts for three days, if he happens to touch a cow that has been delivered of a calf.
A small caste of cultivators, found chiefly near Kumbla and Someswara in the Kasaragod taluk of South Canara.
He lives at Vayalar in the Shertalley taluk in North Travancore, and takes natural pride in a lace cap, said to have been presented to one of his ancestors by the great Cheraman Perumal.
The Ilamagans are described by Mr. Francis [179] as "a cultivating caste found chiefly in the Zamindari talukof Tiruppattur in Madura.
They are said [215] to frequent the kalli (stone) pagoda in the Kannuthnad taluk of North Travancore, and believe that he who proceeds thither a sufficiently large number of times obtains salvation.
For almost every taluk in the North Arcot district there is a headman, called the Desayi Chetti, who may be said in a manner to correspond to a Justice of the Peace.
Except on the coast of the Mangalore taluk and in the Coondapoor taluk, every Holeya is allowed rent free from 1/8 to 1/3 acre of land, and one or two cocoanut or palmyra trees, with sometimes a jack or mango tree in addition.
Writing to me concerning Malabar at the present day, a correspondent states that "in almost every taluk we have jungle tribes, who call themselves the men of Janmis.
The Panikkans of Ambanat house in the Ambalapuzha taluk were the leaders of the Izhava force, and many powers and privileges were conferred upon this family by the Chembakasseri (Ambalapuzha) princes.
His position is intolerable in the Native States of Cochin and Travancore, where Brahman influence is in the ascendant; while in the Palghat taluk the Cherumars cannot, even to this day, enter the bazaar.
The remains of the Muhammadan fort and tank on Pimpardol hill in Jalgaon taluk are now one of the sacred places of the Mahars, though to the Muhammadans they have no religious associations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taluk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
