Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Thogatnalai Korava

by Edgar Thurston

Thogatnalai Korava.— Recorded^[1] as a synonym of a thief class in the southern districts of the Madras Presidency. In a recent note on the Koravas, Mr. F. Fawcett writes that " a fact to be noted is that people such as the members of the well-known Thogamalai gang, who are always called Koravas by the police, are not Koravas at all. They are simply a criminal community, into which outsiders are admitted, who give their women in marriage outside the caste, and who adopt children of other castes."

1. F. S. Mullaly, Criminal Classes of the Madras Presidency.