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| Article Name : | | | NATURE OF CRIMES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY MADURAI DISTRICT | | Author Name : | | | G. Thiyagarajan | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5549 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Crimes committed in the region were of economic, social or administrative nature. Economic crimes were those that were committed with a view to seizethe wealth of another party. Among then the most common were dacoi1t, house,-breaking, torchlight robbery, cattle-lifting. burglary, incendiarism and theft. Towards this end, murder and assaults were frequently committed. These crimes were mostly committed by the Kallars and the Koravas in Tamil Country especially in the Madurai District. This paper analyses the nature and various types of the crimes committed by the Kallars in the Nineteenth Century Maduari District | | Keywords : | | |
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