Papers of and ephemera relating to N.E.Q. Mainwaring of the Madras Police, on the "criminal" Koravar tribe of the Madras Presidency, and of Vellore, Tamil Nadu, comprising manuscripts, corrected typescripts, correspondence, printed ephemera, pamphlets and photographs (approximately 50 albumen prints, most loose), some bound, some loose, various sizes, [c.1903-1920]
N.E.Q. Mainwaring was a career administrator in the British Raj, attaining the position of Department Inspector General, Madras Police. The papers include a heavily corrected 50-page typescript (illustrated with 5 original photographs) on the ethnography, history and (in particular) criminal behaviour of the Koravar tribes of Tamil Nadu, correspondence from several police stations giving details of Koravar convicts, English and local dialect manuscript transcripts of songs and word lists, and a 4-page guideline on "Ethnographic Questions". The tone of the paper is firmly racist, describing the Kolvars as "semi-savages... [with a] total ignorance of themselves", and "Mottayn No. 6296" (see illustration, a Koravar convict from Coimbatore). An 8-page pamphlet on "The Vellor Mutiny [from a Correspondent]", printed at Bangalore (1908) is probably by Mainwaring, the papers also including a manuscript notebook, a large plan and photographs (approximately 25) of Vellore Fort.
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