Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Grāmani

by Edgar Thurston

Grāmani.—The title of some Shānāns, and of the headman of the Khatris. In Malabar, the name gramam (a village) is applied to a Brāhmanical colony, or collection of houses, as the equivalent of the agrahāram of the Tamil country.*^[1]

1. • Wigram. Malabar Law and Custom,