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Brahmins who serve as priests in temples following the Vaishnavite and Shaivite tradition and perform pujas are offered a distinct category classified outside the community by the Government of Tamil Nadu as '703.Adi Saivar' and '754.Saiva Sivachariyar' as distinct from the '713.Brahmanar' (Brahmin) in the list of forward castes. These priests ...
Today, Iyers live all over South India, but an overwhelming majority of Iyers continue to thrive in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Brahmins form an estimated less than 3 per cent of the state's total population and are distributed all over the state. However, accurate statistics on the population of the Iyer community are unavailable. [10]
This role of Hindu Brahmins in a Buddhist kingdom, states Leider, may have been because Hindu texts provide guidelines for such social rituals and political ceremonies, while Buddhist texts do not. [77] The Brahmins were also consulted in the transmission, development and maintenance of law and justice system outside India. [77]
Bhor State, a 9 gun salute princely state ruled by Deshasthas Brahmins; Chaube Jagirs were a group of five feudatory princely states of central India during the period of the British Raj, which were ruled by different branches of Brahmin families. Darbhanga Raj of Mithila, Bihar - ruled by Maithil Brahmins
Banabhatta wrote India's first novel and was a poet in King Harsha's court [240] Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian Poet who wrote India's national song Vande Matram [241] [242] D. R. Bendre [243] Garimella Satyanarayana, Telugu poet and freedom fighter [244] Gopalakrishna Adiga, Kannada poet who is known as "Pioneer of New style" poetry [245]
Kerala Iyers, like the Iyers of Tamil Nadu and the Nambudiris of Kerala, belonged to the Pancha-Dravida classification of India's Brahmin community. They mostly belonged to the Vadama and Brahacharanam sub-sects. Iyers were usually not recruited as the priest (shanthi) in Kerala temples which followed Tantric rituals.
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Ritually and socially superior to the non-Brahmin masses, a Brahmin commanded a dominant political and economic position in Tamil Nadu. With the rise of Dravidar Kazhagam and birth of DMK, along with the ascent of Kamaraj in the Congress, the Brahmin dominance was already in the process of being displaced in the Madras State. [9]