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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP314/5 Language English

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP314/5
Title:: Ayyavu Ambalam's collection of honour dispute documents [1889-1953]
Scope & Content:: This collection has 3 hand written documents pertaining to disputes over 'honour', or 'precedence', The notion of honour establishes ritual, and therefore social, status at the level of the locality and takes the shape of the order in which ritual offerings are distributed during the annual temp...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1889-1953
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP314/5/1
Title:: Honour dispute documents [1889-1953]
Scope & Content:: This scope and content of this series are identical to that of the collection (as there is one series) 3 handwritten and typed paper documents
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1889-1953
Extent:: 40 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP314/5/1/2
Title:: Honour Dispute 2 [1953]
Scope & Content:: This document is a further conflict over the distribution of honours within the kin group itself, in a particular a disagreement about the order given from their ancestor's time, which was settled during a panchayat. This document is a recent photocopy of the original handwritten and typed docu...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1953
Extent:: 30 TIFF images

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