Accounts

An account ledger from a chettiar household in Karaikkudi. No further information is available.

Possibly two leaves from a kaifiyat. Kaifiyats are documents about villages prepared by village accountants. They describe origin stories of villages, land use, cropping patterns, demographics, and so on. The details of this particular record in our holdings are yet to be examined.

Kadata records are an accountant documents written by scribes employed by Mutt administration. This kadata is written by Venkatakrishniah Bhatta for Kalasa property administration dated mid-eighteenth century.

As the name suggests, this is possibly an account (book) related to a temple. The text requires careful study to understand its context and the mathematical practices it reflects.

Accounts ledger from some Karaikkudi chettiar household

Contains 86 pages. Readable. Complete. Preserved in good condition. This paper document deals with the Chettiyar family accounts.

Contains 287 pages. Readable. Complete. Preserved in good condition. This paper document deals with the Chettiyar family accounts of the 1930s.

Contains 198 pages. Readable. Complete. Preserved in good condition. The manuscript deals with day-to-day fishery accounts in the 1940s. It is sourced from a Muslim household in the Coromandel coast.

Contains 276 pages. Readable. Complete. Preserved in good condition. This paper document deals with the accounts of a certain Chettiyar family in Karaikkudi.

An account ledger from Chettiar household/business in Karaikkudi. No further information is available.