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Bách khoa toàn thư nền nông nghiệp thế giới - Vùng Nam Á - Vần T | __Tamil 275 who continue to leant Ayurveda the Indian traditional medicine that is still widespread in Kerala. Death and Afterlife. Many people prefer to bring their critically ill relatives to their family homes where a priest will administer the last rites and last communion. After death the body is ritually washed dressed up and laid on a bed in a large room with lighted candles behind the head of the departed. All close relatives attend and sing hymns and read passages from the Bible. The funeral takes place within twenty-four hours. The body is taken to the church while people sing hymns. After the burial close relatives and friends come to the house of the deceased for a simple vegetarian meal. In the case of older people like parents there will be a memorial church service on the fortieth day after death and also an elaborate vegetarian lunch to which all relatives and people in the community are invited. See also Indian Christians Malayali Bibliography Brown L. W. 1956 . The Indian Christians of St. Thomas. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. Eapen K. V. 1985 . Church Missionary Society and Education in Kerala. Kerala Kollett Publication. Kurian George 1961 . The Indian Family in Transition A Case Study of Kerala Syrian Christians. The Hague Mouton. Menon Sreedhara A. 1978 . Cultural Heritage of Kerala An Introduction. Cochin East-West Publications. Miller Peter 1988 . India s Unpredictable Kerala Jewel of the Malabar Coast. National Geographic 173 592-617. Podipara Placid J. 1970 . The Thomas Christians. London Darton Longman . Todd. Potham S. G. 1963 . The Syrian Christians of Kerala. Bombay Asia Publishing House. Thomas P. 1954 . Christians and Christianity in India and Pakistan. London Allen Unwin. Woodcock George 1967 . Kerala A Portrait of the Malabar Coast. London Faber Faber. GEORGE KURIAN Tamang ETHNONYMS Dhamang Lama Murmi The Tamang numbering some 500 .
