Index

Ackerley, J. R., 78

aggressiveness, Indian, 73

Ain Mane, 174, 181–2

Aiyar, Sir C. P. Ramaswami, 119

Alberoni, Sister Dr, 253

Ammathi, 247

Anaimudi, Mt, 163

Andanipura Farm, see Kudige

Appayya, K. C., 81–90 passim, 91

— Shanti, 82, 85, 88

Asrani, Dr 170, 171, 215

Ayyappa, Lt-Col and Mrs, 191, 210, 220, 250

— P.M., 256

Ballupet, 57–62

Bandipur, 169

Bhatkal, 47

Biardeau, Madeleine, 75

birth control, 29–30

Tibetans and, 37

Bombay, 5–13, 255–6

brinjarries, 242–3

British imperialism, 56, 61, 67, 68

women under, 88

British-Indian relations, 79

bus travel, 63–4

Byerley Stud, see Ballupet

Bylekuppa Tibetan Settlement, 64–5

Byrambada, 225

Cape Comorin, 4, 120–4

Cariappa, Gen. K. M., 251

‘Casey’, see Appayya

caste system, 45, 48, 70

Coorgs and 84

and marriage, 88

in Kerala, 109–10, 111–12

in Coorg, 193–8

Chamundi Hill, 72–7

Chaudhuri, N. C., 73

Chengappa, Dr and Mrs, 173, 174, 176, 185, 205, 209–10, 217, 218, 244, 245, 250

children, treatment of, 144–5

rearing of, 208–9

Chinappa, Jagi, 203, 204, 248

Cochin, 107–17 passim

Coimbatore, 165–7

Colva Beach, 17, 19, 20–5

Communist parties, Indian, 120

Coorg, Lingayat rulers of, 54–5, 182

annexation of, 55, 183–4

agricultural holdings in, 83

geography of, 83

race and origins, 83–4

social structure, 87

Civil Law in, 87, 89

family and inheritance, 89–90

hospitality in, 95, 204

recent history, 184–5

Prohibition in, 188–9

caste in, 193–8

ancestor-veneration in, 206

marriage and divorce, 232

Coorgs, 173, 174, 175, 176, 179–80, 181, 182, 184, 185–6, 187, 206

Crystal Rogers’s Animal Shelter, 255

da Gama, Vasco, 113

Dalai Lama, 32, 35, 36, 39, 40, 43

Devan, P. K., 114–16

Devangeri, 173–252 passim

Dewan Bopu, 58

Dharma, 77

Easy Raj Yoga, 76

Edwardes, Thomas, 79

Elamkulam Manakal Sankaran Namboodiripad, 120

Ernakulam, 110

Ezhavas, 105, 109–10, 114, 118

Fontainhas, 19

Forster, E. M., 72

Foster, Fred and Shelagh, 57, 59, 60

Fraser, Lt-Col J. S., 55, 58

Gandhi, Mahatma, 73, 79, 114, 194

Goa, 17–25, 26

Godly Museums, 75, 76

Good Shepherd Order, 247

Green Hills, see Virajpet

Gundlipet, 168

Guru Gopala Paniker, 115

Harijans, 86, 102, 114, 119, 150, 186, 193, 195, 197, 209–10, 222

Heras, Fr Henry, 84

Hindu priests, 74–5

Hinduism as a religion, 72, 75, 77

Hippies, 14, 19–20, 24

Hughes, Jane, 170, 171

Ibn Batuta, 118

Indian character, 73

Ittamozhi, 126, 129–31, 147–50

Iype, Joseph, 163

John Company, 68

Joseph, Ernest, 126, 128–9, 130–1, 150

Juhu, 11–12

Karnataka, 50–9, 69–104, 168–252 passim

Karwar, 25–31

Kathakali Dance, 114–17

Kennett, Dr, 154

Kerala, 104–17, 155–65

Communism in, 105, 106, 109, 120

reading and literacy in, 113–14

dense population of, 118

Kudige, 81–90

Kumili, 154, 155, 161

Kushalnagar, 57, 58, 64, 81

Kusum, Mr, 246

land distribution, 82–3

Le Hardy, Capt., 57, 58

linguistic problems, Indian, 200–2

Luke, Mr, 126, 127

Macaulay’s ‘Minute’ (1835), 201

Machiah, P. A. and Mrs, 178, 179, 180, 185–6, 190, 191, 197, 210, 215, 217, 218, 220, 224, 226, 227, 236

Madurai, 151–4

Maharashtra, 14, 15

Malabar Christians, 109

Jews, 111–12

Malayalis, literacy of, 113–14

physique, 118

Manakkavala, 158–9

Manapad, 131, 144

Margao, 19

marriage, 88–9, 231–2

Mathew, Mr, 126, 127

Mattancherry, 110

Mercara, 48–57, 86, 199, 245, 251

missionaries, 79–80, 247

Mother Christine, 247–8

Mountbatten, Lord, 68

Mulavukad, 110

Mundgod Tibetan Settlement, 31–44, 64

Munnar, 162–5

Mylatpur, see Sidapur

Mysore City, 65–80

State, 60, 66–80, 169

Nehru, Pandit, 68

Nilgiri region, 166–7

Ootacamund, 166–8

Panaji, 18

Paravas, 143–4

Patel, S. V., 68

Periyar Wild Life Sanctuary, 154–61

pollution, 195ff., 217–18.

See also caste system

Ponappa, 217–22, 226, 243

population problem, 29–30

Prajapita Brahma Kumaris, 75–6

princely states, 68, 69, 70

Puranas, 84

Radhakrishnan, Dr 6, 9, 70

Ram, 7, 8

Rashtriya Swayamasevak Sang, 79–80

Ratnagiri, 15–16

Rolling Thunder, 250

Sastri Nilakanta, 132

Shanti, 175, 176

Shivaram, 114

Shri Narayana Guru, 109

Sidapur, 169, 170, 215

spitting and pollution, 146–7

sterilisation, see birth control

Subaya, 175, 186, 187, 193, 196, 244

Tala Cauvery, 228–30

Tamil Nadu, 126–68 passim

Tellicherry, 104, 107

Tethong, T. C. and Judy, 31, 34–5, 36–9, 43, 44, 64

Thekkady, 156–7, 159

Thimmiah, A. C. and Mrs, 57, 59, 62, 81, 83, 87, 91, 94, 97–9, 100, 174, 205, 213, 229–30, 242, 251

Thimmiah, Sita, 57, 92, 95, 98, 99, 205, 229, 230

Thomas the Apostle, St, 113

Tibetans, see Mundgod, Bylekuppa

Tippu Sultan, 67, 177

Tiruchendur, 134, 135, 136, 140, 144

Tirunelveli, 124, 145

Tisaiyanvilai, 129–34, 143–7

Travancore, 119

Hills, 163

Trivandrum, 118–20

Tucci, Prof., 43

Udipi, 45–9

Udumalpet, 165–6

untouchability, see caste system, Harijans

Virajpet, 91–103, 171–2, 173, 177, 180, 213–14, 230–1, 244

Vira Raja, 55–6, 58

Visvesvaraya, Dr M., 67

Vivekananda, Swami, 109

Wadeyars, 67, 68

Webb, Kay, 62, 65, 80

Western Ghats, 125

Willingdon, islands of, 110

women, rights of, 87–8

Xavier, St Francis, 113, 130, 140–1, 143