About the Book: Madras District Gazetteers Madura (1906)
The chief features of his work were its sections on the political and revenue
history of the district; and these have been freely utilized in the present
volume. The early part of the former of them, however, has naturally been
largely superseded by the discoveries due to the progress of epigraphy in recent
years; and limits of space have necessitated the ruthless condensation of much
of Mr. Nelsons picturesque account of the Nayakkan dynasty in the latter part of
the same section. Most of the rest of the book is new. It is arranged on the
system followed