Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Mellikallu

by Edgar Thurston

Mellikallu. — Under the name Mellikallu or Mallekalu, seventy-six individuals are returned, in the Madras Census Report, 1901, as "hill cultivators in Pedakōta village of Vīravalli tāluk of the Vizagapatam Agency, who are reported to constitute a caste by them- selves. They pollute by touch, have their own priests, and eat pork but not beef."