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Swaroopam - Royal title of Kerala. Thamban - Royal Nair title. Chekavar - A title in North Malabar, given to the members of Thiyya Caste who are trained in Warfare and Martial Arts and are deployed as Soldiers. [12] Mappila - Mappila is a surname for Travancore Syrian Christians and Muslims of Malabar. Moopan - All Kerala and North Malabar most ...
Cherian/Cheriyan is a Syrian Christian surname of Semitic (Hebrew-Aramaic) origin, presumed to be a derivative of Zecharya (Zacharias or Zechariah) and a variant of Zacharias popular among the Christian community of Kerala, southern India. The final -n is the Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix.
The Pakalomattam family is an ancient Marthoma Nasrani (Syrian Orthodox and Syrian Catholic Christian) family in Kerala, India.According to an article written by P. J. Thomas, Parakunnel, a member of the Parakkunnel-Pakalomattom family, in Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the family "solely supplied bishops and archdeacons to the Church [in India] till the beginning of the ...
Socially and culturally these Saint Thomas Christians remain as a part of the wider Indian community. They keep their Indian social customs, names and practices relating to birth, marriage, and death. They have Biblical names (Mar Thoma Christian names). At the same time they follow a number of Jewish customs like worship, baptism, wedding and ...
P. Chacko MLA – Member, Kerala Legislative Assembly (1960–1964) [7] Dr. George Thomas – Kerala Legislative Assembly (1967–1970) [8] M. T. Jacob – Mayor of Aluva (2010–incumbent) P.J. Kurien – Member and Deputy Speaker of Rajya Sabha from Kerala (2012–incumbent) Oommen Chandy – former chief minister Kerala (2446 days)
P. C. John - Evangelist Kerala Brethren Church; Poykayil Johannan - was a Dalit activist, poet and founder of Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha or PRDS; Abraham Kovoor - Indian professor and rationalist, Founder of "Yukthi Vadhi Sangam" K. V. Simon - Notable Malayalam Christian poet from Kerala and prominent leader of the Kerala Brethren movement.
The Pakalomattam family is an ancient Suriyani (Syrian) Christian family in Kerala, India.They are popularly known as Saint Thomas Christians or Syriac Christians in view of the Syriac (classical form of Aramaic) liturgy used in church services since the early days of Christianity in India and not for any Syrian migration.
They played a pioneering role in many spheres such as banking, commerce, cash crops, print media, the film industry, etc. [270] Around 2003, among Saint Thomas Christians, 17.4 percent of the adult population are self-employed – the highest rate statistically among all the communities in the state of Kerala. [271]