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Series 3: Performances and songs, 1965; 1975 (continued)
Kovalan and other short stories (continued)
Recorded by Brenda Beck, 1966.
Series 4: Family histories, 1965-1966
Subseries 1: Caste
The following transcripts and recordings have digital content that can be accessed on request on digital carrier afc2017/050_cf11.
Caste stories
BOX-FOLDER 17/1 "Cenkuta Mutaliyar" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/2 "Maamari Naataar" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/3 "Mutaliyar" (caste) story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/4 "Mutaliyar sub castes split-up" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/5 "Olapalayam Kannakapillai" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/6 "Ookacaadi Pandarams"
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/7 "Palani Mutaliyar" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 17/8 "Veettuva Gounder" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
Caste interaction charts
BOX-FOLDER 17/9 Caste to caste food exchange
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/10 Food exchange in Olapalayam—charts
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/11 Nilakkotai ranking and social information
Extent: Manuscript
Subseries 2: Olapalayam and neighborhood census
BOX-FOLDER 17/12 Houses 1-10B
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/13 Houses 10C-21B
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/14 Houses 22-36
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/15 Houses 37-52
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/16 Houses 53-68
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/17 Houses 71-87
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/18 Houses 88-100
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/19 Gannapuram kiramam hamlet list and map
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/20 Hamlet household counts by kulam and caste
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/21 Household survey Olapalayam houses 18, 93, 94 and 40c
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/22 Kadai vidi household survey
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/23 Koluncikaattuvalasu households
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/24 Maataari hamlet households—Pusarivalasu
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/25 Maataari hamlet households—Sangangadu
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 17/26-28 Coimbatore House-to-house caste survey
Extent: Manuscript
Oversized materials separated to Box 46.
BOX-FOLDER 18/1 Map of Olapalayam
Extent: Manuscript
Includes a photocopy of the map of Olapalayam identifying house numbers. See Box 46 for original oversize map.
BOX-FOLDER 18/2 Map of houses in the census
Extent: Manuscript
Includes a map showing houses in the census, by number and location.
BOX-FOLDER 18/3 Murugangadu household list
Extent: Manuscript
Includes a household list written in Tamil.
BOX-FOLDER 18/4 Names of households in Olapalayam
Extent: Manuscript
Includes the names of households in Olapalayam by house numbers.
BOX-FOLDER 18/5 Names of reference for Olapalayam households
Extent: Manuscript
Includes the names of people referred to in a conversation by Sundaram, February 11, 1966.
BOX-FOLDER 18/6 Olapalayam households by caste
Extent: Manuscript
List of caste names and house numbers.
BOX-FOLDER 18/7 Olapalayam households by caste and shared fields
Extent: Manuscript
Includes household names from a survey of economic conditions by K. Raju Govti, March 20, 1965.
BOX-FOLDER 18/8 Olapalayam land registration and field maps
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 18/9 Olapalayam landowners, Karnam records
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 18/10 Ownership of fields in Olapalayam by house number
Extent: Manuscript
Includes information collected by Sengotayan and Sundaram, June 1966. In English.
BOX-FOLDER 18/11 Pachapalayam household list
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 18/12 Pariayar hamlet households and map, Gannapuram
Extent: Manuscript
Oversize map separated to Box 46.
BOX-FOLDER 18/13 Pusarivalasu household list
Extent: Manuscript
BOX-FOLDER 18/14 Three Olapalayam maps from BB D.Phil thesis
Extent: Manuscript
Includes letter sized photocopies of maps of Olapalayam, 1965. Maps show the alignment among the Olapalayam residents and the Kavuntar clans.
Subseries 3: Regional Kongu structures
Include four titled families of Kongu
BOX-FOLDER 18/15 "Cengarandampalayam Pattakkarar" story, February 14, 1966
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 18/16 Kangayam nadu formal subdivisions
Extent: Manuscript
See Box 18, Folder 29 for related information.
BOX-FOLDER 18/17 "Kangayam natu" story
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript of "Kangayam natu-stone inscription" from Chidambaram. The story can be found in a book, Growth of Tamil Prose, 1968.
BOX-FOLDER 18/18 "Kadaiyur Pattakarar" story, February 14, 1966
Extent: Manuscript
Transcript.
BOX-FOLDER 18/19 "Paraiyakottai Pattakkarar" story
Extent: Manuscript
Includes the story of "Palaiyakattai Pattarara," February 14, 1966.
BOX-FOLDER 18/20 Pattakkarar requirements for free public work
Extent: Manuscript
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