Religion and Society Among the Coorgs of South India

## PREFACE Shri H. Tirumala Char, B.A., B.L., and his family for their hospitality to me in Mercara .. I am very grateful to the Carnegie Research Fund for a generous grant which enabled me to pursue my studies at Oxford. I thank Dr. A.A. Bake, and the Films Division of the Ministry ofInformation and Broadcasting, Government of India, for the loan of some of the photographs reproduced in this book. My friends Mr. R. G. Lienhardt, Mr. K. O. L. Burridge, and Dr. Kathleen Gough have helped me by critically reading the typescript.