Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Tollakkādan

by Edgar Thurston

Tollakkādan (one with a big hole in the lobes of his ears). — Taken, at the census, 1901, as a sub-caste of Shānān, as those returning the name, who are vendors of husked rice in Madras, used the Shānān title Nādān. The equivalent Tollakādu was returned as a sub-division of Konga Vellāla.