Archival records from Rescuing Tamil customary law: locating and copying endangered records of village judicial assemblies (1870-1940) (EAP314)
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Thavamani Thevar's Collection of Tamil Customary Law Documents [1645-1971]
This collection consists of handwritten documents belonging to Thavamani Thevar. These documents written to his father (Pinna Thevar, 1896-1971)…
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Subburaj Kudumban's collection of land transaction documents [1927-1940]
This small collection contains land transaction documents (land deeds and land tax receipts) issued by the Zamindar of Gandamanayakanur in the…
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Sundarapandi Goundar' collection of land transaction and conflict settlement documents [1827-1938]
This collection belongs to Siruvalai Zamin but is currently kept by his younger brother Sundarapandian. They belong to the Anupa Goundar sub-caste…
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Nataraj Servai's collection of conflict and land transaction documents [1862-1959]
This large collection belongs to Nataraj Servai, who belongs to a lineage of headmen of the Servai (Agamudayar) caste in Adalai. The documents were…
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Ayyavu Ambalam's collection of honour dispute documents [1889-1953]
This collection has 3 hand written documents pertaining to disputes over 'honour', or 'precedence', The notion of honour…
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Logu's collection of land documents [1884-1920]
This collection has 4 documents: 1 related to land Pledging and 1 land purchase; 1 land sharing and the last one related to a divorce and address…
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Chandiran's collection of mortgage documents [1901-1914]
Documents dealing with pledging the land for cash.5 handwritten paper documents.
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Koorai Kula Addenam's collection of ritual tax collection notebooks and other documents [1862-1943]
This Collection consists of paper documents dealing with customary law, Inam commission as well as a small amount of miscellaneous papers. There…
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Amirtharaj Thevar's vigilance rights copper plate
This collection contains only one copper plate which is given by the Gandamanur Zamindar to Vellaiathevan (forefather of Amirthalingam Thevar, the…
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Muthukannu Thevar's collection of temple disputes and land transactions [1890-1943]
This collection has 22 hand written documents, dealing with temple disputes, land transactions and land mortgages.22 handwritten paper documents.…
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Land Transactions [1865-1937]
This series contains receipts for the land tax collected by the Siruvalai Zamin on behalf of the Ganesha temple for the period 1865-1937 and…
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Siruvalai Zamin's Copper plates [1827-1945]
This series contains 3 copperplates which did not originally belong to Sundarapandian's family but were taken from their gurukal (the…
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Land transactions [1870-1959]
This series contains two files of various land transactions such as land mortgage deeds, sale deeds, leases, etc.116 handwritten and printed…
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Temple management [1862-1947]
This series contains two files documents regarding temple accounts and management.
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Petition Notebooks [1915-1938]
This series consists of hand written petitions send to Ananji Thevar and his son Pinna Thevar respectively grand father and father of the Current…
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