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TODAS , a small See also:pastoral tribe of See also:Southern See also:India, found only on the Nilgiri hills. They are distinguished by their tall, well-proportioned figures, aquiline noses, See also:long, See also:black, wavy See also:hair and full beards. Their See also:colour is a See also:light See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown. Their See also:dress consists of a single See also:cloth, which they See also:wear like the See also:plaid of a Scotch highlander. The See also:women See also:cover the whole See also:body with this See also:mantle. Their See also:sole occupation Is See also:cattle-herding and See also:dairy-See also:work. They practise See also:polyandry, a woman marrying all the See also:brothers of a See also:family. 'I he proportion of See also:females to See also:males is about three to five. Their See also:language is a mixture of Tamil and See also:Kanarese, and is classified by See also:Bishop Caldwell as a See also:separate language of the See also:Dravidian family. The Todas See also:worship their dairy-buffaloes, but they have a whole See also:pantheon of other gods. The only purely religious ceremony they have is Kona Shastra, the See also:annual See also:sacrifice of a male See also:buffalo See also:calf. Toda villages, called minds, usually consist of five buildings or huts, three of which are used as dwellings, one as a dairy and the other for sheltering the calves at See also:night. These huts are of an See also:oval, pent-shaped construction usually Io ft. high, 18 ft. long and 9 ft. broad. They are built of See also:bamboo fastened with rattan and thatched. Each hut is enclosed within a See also:wall of loose stones. The inhabitants of a mand are generally related and consider themselves one family. The Todas numbered 807 in 1901.
See W. H. R. See also:Rivers, The Todas (1906).
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