Ritual tax collection notebooks [1920-1939]

This series contains the different villages visited by the Sivagiri Addenam and the ritual tax collected from each household which comes under his jurisdiction. The Addenam would perform an important ritual, the Siva puja, for the Kongu Vellala caste people which they could not perform themselves and therefore he was entitled to collect this money from them. Each house paid 25 paise per month or Rs.3 per annum. The Addenam would travel himself to all the locations. Since this was very time consuming sometime he would collect the tax only once every two years and therefore collect at that time the tax for the two years. This ritual tax system is still in existence.

13 notebooks handwritten of various page limits and size.