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MACHI Machi.——Recorded as a synonym of Myāsa Bēdar.  Madaka (plough). — An exogamous sept of Togata.  Mādāri (pride or arrogance). — A Tamil name for Chakkiliyan.  Maddi.— Maddi or Madderu, indicating those who use the root of the Indian mulberry (maddi: Morinda citrifolia) as a dye, has been recorded as a sub-division of Besthas and Kabbēras.  Maddila (drum). — Maddila or Maddili has been recorded as an exogamous sept of Kāpu and Māla.  Madhavē (marriage). — An exogamous sept of Badagas of the Nīlgiri hills.  '''Madhurāpuria. —''' A name frequently given by members of the Bhatta sub-division of Gaudo.  '''Madhya. —''' Madhya or Madhaya is a sub-division of Bottada and Sondi. <section end="H340" /> <section begin="I340" />'''Mādiga. —''' The Mādigas are the great leather-working caste of the Telugu country, and correspond to the Chakkiliyans of the Tamil area. They were first studied by me at Hospet in the Bellary district, and at once formed a strong opposition party, in the belief that I was going to select and carry off the strong men, lest they should become kings, and upset the British Rāj. So frightened were they, that they went in a body to live in the Muhammadan quarter of the town. At the Hospet weekly market I witnessed a mendicant youth lying naked in a thorny bed of bābūl (Acacia arabica) stems. A loathsome spectacle was afforded by a shrivelled old woman with mouth distended by a mass of mud the size of a cricket-ball, both eyes bunged up with mud, and beating her bare breasts with her hands. The market was infested by religious mendicants, some from Benares and Rāmēsvaram, others from across the Hyderabad frontier, who cadged persistently for tobacco <section end="I340" />