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• Weda (Sri Lankan people)
• Weddah (Sri Lankan people)
• Weddo (Sri Lankan people)

• The Veddas (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1911), by C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman, contrib. by Charles S. Myers and Abraham Mendis Gunasekara
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Vedda Music (reprinted from C. G. and Brenda Seligman's The Veddas; Cambridge: At the University Press, 1911), by Charles S. Myers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wild Ceylon, describing in particular the lives of the present day Veddas (The Colombo Apothecaries Co., ltd., 1924), by Richard Spittel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceylon; min Veddaexpedition 1922. (C.W.K. Gleerup, 1926), by Ebbe Kornerup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ergebnisse naturwissenschaftlicher forschungen auf Ceylon (C.W. Kreidel, 1887), by Paul Sarasin and Fritz Sarasin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Ceylon: an account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization (Luzac & Co., 1909), by H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane) (G.J.A. Skeen, Govt. Printer, Ceylon, 1983), by Archibald Campbell Lawrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers on the custom of polyandry as practised in Ceylon. (Government record office, 1899) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Ceylon: an account of the aborigines and of part of the early civilization (Luzac & Co., 1909), by H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane) (Sri Lanka :, 1986), by Archibald Campbell Lawrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'île de Ceylan et ces curiosités naturelles (V. Sarlit, 1869), by Octave Louis Marie Sachot (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'île de Ceylan et ces curiosités naturelles. (V. Sarlit, 1877), by Octave Louis Marie Sachot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Archaeology, ethnology, etc. (The Archaeological Commissioner ;, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceylon journal of science. Section G, Anthropology. (Colombo., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Village folk-tales of Ceylon ... (Luzac & co., 1910), by H. Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinhalese folklore notes. (Printed at the British India press, Mazgaon, 1917), by Arthur A. Perera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les larmes du cobra (Éditions Bossard, 1925), by Enid Karunaratne and Andrée Karpelès (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of Ceylon in fairy tales (Platé, 1800), by Aline Van Dort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of Sinhalese proverbs, maxims, fables &c. (Printed at the Catholic Press, 1880), by Alexander Mendis Senānāyaka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sinhalese Folklore Notes, Ceylon, by Arthur A. Perera (Gutenberg ebook)

• Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by David West Rudner (HTML at UC Press)
• Naṭṭukkōṭṭai nakarattārkaḷin cīrtiruttam (Vivēkapānu Acciyantiracālai, 1911), by Mu. Katirēcac Ceṭṭiyār (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tamil Studies: or, Essays on the History of the Tamil People, Language, Religion and Literature ("first series", appears to be only one published; Chennai: At the Guardian Press, 1914), by M. Srinivasa Aiyangar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Congress in Tamilnad : nationalist politics in South India, 1919-1937 (Australian National University Press, 1977), by David Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Süd-Indien. Land und Volk der Tamulen (Druck und Verlag von G. Bertelsmann, 1899), by Hans Gehring (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Tamils from the earliest times to 600 A. D. (C. Coomarasawmy Naidu & sons, 1929), by Piḷḷaipūndaguḍi Tiruvēṅgaḍatt'aiyaṅgār Srïniväs'-aiyaṅgär (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tamilian antiquary. (Asian Educational Services, 1907), by India) T.A. Society (Tiruchchirāppalli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kaveri, the Maukharis and the Sangam age (The University of Madras, 1925), by T. G. Aravamuthan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of the Tamulians and its missions (Printed by Higginbotham and co., 1875), by E. R. Baierlein and J. D. B. Gribble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tamil studies, or essays on the history of the Tamil people, language, religion and literature. (Guardian press, 1914), by M. Srinivasa Aiyangar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paṇṭaikkālat Tamil̲arum, Āriyarum (Tirunelvēlit Ten̲n̲intiya Caivacittānta Nūr̲patippuk Kal̲akam, 1906), by Mar̲aimalaiyaṭikaḷ (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Vellalas of Nanjanad, Travancore State, India. (Anthropos, 1916), by C. Hayavadana Rao and Anthropos (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tamils eighteen hundred years ago (Higginbotham, 1904), by V. Kanakasabhai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Evangelisch-lutherische Tamulen-Mission in der Zeit ihrer Neubegründung : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Evangelischen Mission im 19. Jahrhundert (J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1903), by Richard Handmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tamilian antiquary. (Asian Educational Services, 1907), by India) T.A. Society (Trichonopoly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terra Tamilica; the land of the Tamils in the golden age (Printed for private circulation only, 1910), by C. Srīkānta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kafir socialism and the dawn of individualism; an introduction to the study of the native problem (A. and C. Black, 1908), by Dudley Kidd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bantu folk lore (medical and general) (Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Matthew L. Hewat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savage childhood : a study of Kafir children (London : A. and C. Black, 1906., 1906), by Dudley Kidd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savage childhood; a study of Kafir children. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Dudley Kidd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu country. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Joseph Shooter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industrie des Cafres du sud-est de l'Afrique; collection recueillie sur les lieux et notice ethnographique (E.J. Brill, 1893), by Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller and Johannes François Snelleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of Kafir laws and customs : including genealogical tables of Kafir chiefs and various tribal census returns (J. Slater, 1906), by John Maclean (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteen months among the Kaffirs. (Dean, 1895), by E. W. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work (A. Elliot, 1878), by John Aitken Chalmers and John Logan Aikman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilhelm Posselt, der Kaffern-Missionar; ein Lebensbild aus der südafrikanischen Mission (Buchhandlung der Berliner evangelischen Missionsgesellschaft, 1891), by Wilhelm Posselt and E. Pfitzner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of my mission in south-eastern Africa: comprising some account of the European colonists; with extended notices of the Kaffir and other native tribes. (London : Hamilton, 1860., 1860), by William Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original matter contained in Lt. Col. Sutherland's memoir on the Kaffers, Hottentots, and Bosjemans, of South Africa, heads 1st and 2nd : Commentaries and notes on the text used in the compilation of the memoirs. (Pike & Philip, 1847), by John Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman : which was unfortunately wrecked upon the coast of Caffraria, somewhere between the 27th and 32d degrees of southern latitude, on the 4th of August, 1782 (Printed at the Minerva Press, for J. Murray, Fleet-Street, and William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, 1791), by George Carter and John Hynes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Kafir life. (A.R. Mowbray, 1905), by Godfrey Callaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compendium of Kafir laws and customs, including genealogical tables of Kafir chiefs and various tribal census returns. (S. Solomon & co., printers, 1866), by John Maclean (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cape and the Kafirs, or, Notes of five years' residence in South Africa (A. and W. Galignani :, 1852), by Alfred W. Cole and South American traveller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The past and future of the Kaffir races. In three parts. I. Their history. II. Their manners and customs. III. The means needful for their preservation and improvement. (The author, 1866), by William Clifford Holden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kaffern auf der südküste von Afrika, nach ihren sitten und gebräuchen aus eigner ansicht beschrieben (Becker, 1815), by Johann Christoph Ludwig Alberti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short papers chiefly on South African subjects (Lovedale Institution Press, 1893), by Andrew Smith and Lovedale Missionary Institution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Researches into the relations between the Hottentots and and Kafirs (s.n., 1857], 1857), by W. H. I. Bleek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caffres and Caffre missions : with preliminary chapters on the Cape Colony as a field for emigration, and basis of missionary operation (J. Nisbet, 1858), by Henry Calderwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence respecting the affairs of South Africa. Printed by order of the House of Assembly, May, 1878. (S. Solomon, Steam Printing Office, 1878), by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Governor (1877-1880 : Frere) and Great Britain Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence, memoranda, and minutes connected with the dismissal of the late ministry. (S. Solomon, Steam Printing Office, 1878), by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Parliament. House of Assembly and Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Governor (1877-1880 : Frere) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morning star of the Amaci Tribe (Beck and Inchbold, 1899), by Gilbert Gilkes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tiyo Soga : a page of South African mission work (Elliot, 1877), by John A. Chalmers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beachcombers of the African jungle. (Doubleday, 1959), by Jack Sholomir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General), by Matthew L. Hewat (Gutenberg ebook)

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