Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Gōnē

by Edgar Thurston

Gōnē (a sack). — An exogamous sept of Mālā. The Gōnē Perikes have been summed up as being a Telugu caste of gunny-bag weavers, corresponding to the Janappans of the Tamil country. Gunny-bag is the popular and trading name for the coarse sacking and sacks made from jute fibre, which are extensively used in Indian trade.*^[1] Gone is further an occupational sub-division of Kōmati.

The Gōnigas of Mysore are described, in the Census Report, 1901, as sack-weavers and makers of gunnybags, agriculturists, and grain porters at Bangalore; and it is noted that the abnormal fall of 66 per cent, in the number of the caste was due to their being confounded with Gānigas.

1. * Yule and Burnell. Hobson-Jobson.