Description
The name of the carpenter sub-division of Kammalans, and further returned, at the census 1S91, as an occupational sub-division by some Paraivans, i accl'ia Karaiyan has been recorded as a name for some members of the Karaiyan fishing caste. The Tacchasastram, or science of carpentry, prescribes in minute details the rules of construction. Tacchanadan Muppan.— Recorded, in the Madras Census Reports, 1S91 and 1901, ns a sub-division ot’ Kuricchans, and of Kurumbas of the Nilgiris, Mughal-Library