The Laws and Customs of the Tamils of Jaffna |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Thesawalamai Originally a Collection of Dravidian Usages | 7 |
Influence of Foreign Systems of law on Thesawalamai | 18 |
Copyright | |
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