The Yanadis Of Southern India

The Yanadis are a long-headed, broad and concave-nosed, dark-skinned, short-statured tribe, inhabiting the Telugu speaking districts of the Madras Presidency, except Bellary. The story of the Yanadis, already before the public, is neither full, nor up to date. Their manners and customs are slowly changing; their habits of life are altering. The accounts given of them some thirty years ago are not only inadequate but not quite accurate. In this work, an attempt is made to bring together, as the result of personal observation and experiment, all that can be said of the Yanadis’ as they are. They are therefore not the aborigines, but exotics, they are post-Dravidian and post-Aryan. The book is the product of extensive study of these tribes. The subject of the book is illuminating and delicate. There is no statement in the book to which exception may justly be taken. The author has used more than dozen references to justify the name of the title to make the book an authentic one.