Report on the Census of Travancore: Taken by Command of His Highness the Maja Rajah, on the 18th May 1875 A.D. - 6th Vycausy 1050 M.E.Travancore Government Press, 1876 - 289 pàgines |
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6th Vycausy able to read Adults Agusteeswaram Alengaud Alleppey Ambalavasies appointed Brahmins buildings Cardamom Hills castes Census operations cent Chenganacherry Chetti class houses Clerks coast Cochin column commenced Culcoolum Cunnattunad Cutcherry DEAR SIR Division educated Elavars entries Eraniel Eurasians European females Final Census Final Enumeration day Foreign Brahmins Form Government Hindu House Register Huzzoor Census Office included Instructions Iyen Karas Kartigay Kottarakaray Krishna Kshetryas Madras Census Madras Presidency Mahommedans Malayala Brahmins Malayala Soodras males merators Moovattupulay Mosques Nagercoil Nair Nair Brigade Namburi Native Christians Nedoomangad Neyattunkaray North number of houses occupation Pagodas Paravoor persons Pillay Preliminary Enumeration proportion Proverticars Proverty Pulayars Puthanapuram Quilon read and write Register of Houses Religion Report returned Rupees schedules sexes Shanars Sheraingil square miles statistics Supervisors tabulation Tahsildars Talooks Tamil thatched Thovalay tion total number total population Travan Travancore Trevan Trevandrum South Vellalars Vilavancode village women
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Pàgina 139 - And yet at the present day we, by the employment of what now seems a very natural method, are possessed of a truth which the united abilities of a long series of eminent men failed to discover. By the simple expedient of registering the number of births and their sexes — by extending this registration over several years, in different countries, — we have been able to eliminate all casual disturbances, and ascertain the existence of a law which, expressed in round numbers, is, that for every twenty...
Pàgina 96 - The whole surface is undulating, and presents a series of hills and valleys, traversed from east to west by many rivers, the floods of which, arrested by the peculiar action of the Arabian Sea on the coast, spread themselves out into numerous lakes or lagoons, connected here and there by artificial canals, and forming an inland line of smooth water communication which extends nearly the whole length of the coast, and is of the utmost value when the sea itself is closed for navigation during the monsoon.
Pàgina 239 - The Ninth Book relates to women, to families, and to the law of castes. It states that women must be kept in a state of dependence. " Their fathers protect them in childhood ; their husbands protect them in youth ; their sons protect them in age. A woman is never fit for independence.
Pàgina 241 - On whatever houses the women of a family, not being duly honoured, pronounce an imprecation, those houses, with all that belong to them, utterly perish, as if destroyed by a sacrifice for the death of an enemy.
Pàgina 191 - His person is holy ; his directions are commands ; his movements are a procession ; his meal is nectar ; he is the holiest of human beings; he is the representative of God on earth.
Pàgina 186 - From a Brahmin on a wife of the Vaisya class," he observes, " is born a son called Ambasht'ha or Vaidya, on a Sudra wife a Nishada, named also Parasava : from a Kshatriya on a wife of the Sudra class, springs a creature called Ugra ", with a nature partly warlike and partly servile, ferocious in his manners, cruel in his acts.
Pàgina 212 - The ceremony of investiture begins by the youth's standing opposite the sun and walking thrice round the fire. Then girt with the thread, he asks alms from the assembled company.
Pàgina 241 - NOTE. THE learned Hindus are unanimously of opinion, that many laws enacted by MENU, their oldest reputed legislator, were confined to the three first ages of the world, and have no force in the present age, in which a few of them are certainly obsolete ; and they ground their opinion on the following texts, which are collected in a work entitled, Madana-ratnapradipa.
Pàgina 241 - Married women must be honoured and adorned by their fathers and brethren, by their husbands, and by the brethren of their husbands, if they seek abundant prosperity. Where females are honoured, there the deities are pleased ; but where they are dishonoured, there all religious acts become fruitless.
Pàgina 212 - investiture with the sacred cord,' already described in the Grihya Sutras (p. 201). This cord, which is a thin coil of three threads, commonly called the Yajnopavita or ' sacrificial thread,' is worn over the left shoulder and allowed to hang down diagonally across the body to the right hip, and the wearing of it by the three twice-born classes was the mark of their second birth1.