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Although many books have been written on India—some perhaps too abstract and philosophical, and others, on the other hand, too diffuse and cursory—yet a short, popular account of the present-day manners and customs of the people of South India, such as readers in this country and those going out to that part might, perhaps, find useful on first arrival, seemed to be a desideratum. Having for upwards of eighteen years moved freely among all classes of the people in various parts of the country, and having taken notes of what he has seen and heard, the author has ventured to put them together in this little book.