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Excerpt from A Short History and Ethnology of the Cultivating Pods: An Exposition of the Origin of the Cultivating Pods, Their Status, Ways of Life and Social Manners and Customs
Mother 'india embraces in her arms numerous tribes and castes, - hundreds of sects and com munities and great diversities of faiths and religi ons. Of these, a very few people have the linked histories of their own, -as ages have passed without working upon their spirit of ardency for the study of their antiquities. Centuries rolled on - there grew no curiousities in the minds of the people to turn over the leaves of their obscured past! Thus after generations, the brilliant aspect of facts and truths got distorted and much coloured by conceding to idle exagge rations, fancies and falsehoods, - the raw truths sometimes having been manufactured into tales of wonder. In most cases, even there is left nothing in the form of such wondrous tales as being analysed by expert hands may present its true frame work to their inquisitive eyes.' More deplorable is the case with the history of the Pods, - which lies almost blank as far as the eyes can reach. Old Sanskrit and Vernacular litera tures of different periods are replete with thehistorical anecdotes of the Hindus. Who knows Where in the old torn and abstruse palm leaves, the protraits of the daily life of the Pods, who are proud of a sublime past, are elaborately depicted! The region remains still unexplored, - the gateway still unopened, - the mysteries still unrevealed It requires more deliberate labour, gifted ability and ardous devotion to push on this sacred task.
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