Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- I PROLOGUE -- II BOMBAY CITY AND THE BOMBAY DECCAN -- NOTE : Housing and Health in Bombay City -- III FIRST DAYS IN MADRAS -- The Madras Industrial Exhibition, 1915 -- The Madras Department of Industries -- Sir Frederick Nicholson -- Soap -- IV THE GEOGRAPHY OF MADRAS -- V MAKING CONTACTS -- VI ERUVELLIPET, A DELTA VILLAGE -- The Village Husbandry -- Homes and Temples -- Padials -- VII SALEM AND ITS ENVIRONS -- Mallur and its misfortunes -- A Zemindari village -- Kanjamalai and Josiah Heath -- Tanks, urban and rural -- Salem handicrafts-men and markets -- VIII PALNI AND RESETTLEMENT IN MADURA DISTRICT -- Subrahmanyam's Temple -- Some Settlement proceedings -- Anicuts and Ayacuts -- A pioneer settlement in the wilderness -- Village weavers and their lord -- Kallans and irrigation water -- IX THE CITY OF MADURA -- The patient lovers -- The Nattukottai Chettis -- X THE TINNEVELLY COTTON AREA -- XI KUMBAKONAM -- Tanjore Brahmins and Kumbakonam health problems -- XII THE NILGIRIS AND THE PALNI HILLS -- NOTE I: The Tamil language -- NOTE II: Tamil Verse -- XIII THE COIMBATORE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE -- Cattle breeding and sugar -- XIV TRICHINOPOLY -- A police court case and reflections on Indian criminal procedure -- Saivites and Vaishnavites -- St. Joseph's College and Monastery -- XV CUDDALORE AND PONDICHERRY -- Ayuda Puja and Muniswami -- XVI TRIVANDRUM AND TRAVANCORE -- The Maharajah and his Ministers -- Lace-making in Nagercoil and Muligamudu -- XVII COCHIN AND TRICHUR -- A coconut plantation -- Cochin Town and State -- An Ayurvedic physician -- The Diwan of Cochin -- Anthropological studies, (1) Nambudiris and Nairs, -- (2) Syrian Christians, Nayadis, Tiyyas, Cherumas, Moplas -- Nascent capitalism in Cochin