Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

Name: Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
Author: Edgar Thurston

by Edgar Thurston

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg.

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2011-03-26

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Public domain in the USA.

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Folklore -- India Omens Superstition -- India, South Occultism -- India, South Dravidians -- Folklore

About the author

Edgar Thurston

1855–1935

A British museum superintendent in colonial Madras, he wrote widely on the peoples, natural history, and material culture of South India. His best-known work, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, remains a frequently cited record of its time.

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