Price: ₹270
Pages: 246
ISBN: 9788123438061
The research book concentrates on Piramalai Kallars of Madurai in Madras Presidency, a community at that time branded as a whole as Criminal Tribes. Unlike other Criminal Tribes who were nomadic traders such as Yerukula tribes Piramalai Kallars were neither nomadic nor traders. Kallars in the Tami Society were historically warriors. They were mentioned in the Easr India Company records of the 16th and 17th century as a ferocious independent warrior caln and were proclaimed as Criminal Tribes in the 1911 by the British Colonial Raj.