THE COCHIN TRIBES AND CASTES With Illustrations

The Cochin Tribes and Castes (Volume I) is a landmark ethnographic study originally published in 1909 by L.K. Anantha Krishna Iyer then Superintendent of Ethnography Cochin State. This meticulously researched volume documents the customs beliefs and social organization of the tribal and animistic communities in the Cochin region of South India. Drawing on extensive first-hand fieldwork Iyer presents detailed monographs on each group—including the Kadars Malayans Pulayans Parayans and others—capturing a rapidly vanishing world. This reprint by Salmon Books preserves the original illustrations and narrative offering a vital resource for students and scholars of anthropology sociology and Indian history.