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Contents
The Land and its Resources | 1 |
Origin Myths and Legends | 28 |
The Earliest Maldivians | 48 |
Copyright | |
13 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Addu Addu Atol Alif ancient Arabic atiri atol chief atol office banished behaviour Bell boat Bodu British brother Buddhist called caste Century A.D. ceremony Ceylon child coconut Colombo coral cowries culture dance Didi Dipavamsa Divehi divorce Dravidian early elite endogamy fandita fish foreign gdzi Giravaru girls Gujarat husband Huvadu Ibn Battuta Ibrahim Nasir important Indian Ocean Indo-Aryan Islamic island office jinni katibu Kerala king kinship Koimala Lakshadvip land language live Mahavamsa Malayalam Maldive Islands Maldivian Male Maliku marriage married matrilineal millets Minister mosque mother mudimu Muhammad Mulaku Muslim myth origin Persian person political population Portuguese prayers probably Pyrard Qur'an raivar Raveri reef rice ritual rule rupee sail ships Sinhala society South Asia South India southern atols Sri Lanka stone stupas Sultan Tam.-Mal Tamil trade traditional visited woman women word Young and Christopher
Bibliographic information
| Title | People of the Maldive Islands |
| Author | Clarence Maloney |
| Publisher | Orient Longman, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 441 pages |
| Subjects | › › Ethnology Maldive Islands Maldives Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Anthropology / General Social life and customs |
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