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​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,
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