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The usual four-tier Hindu caste system, involving the varnas of Brahmin (priest), Kshatriya (warrior), Vaishya (business person, involved in trading, entrepreneurship and finance) and Shudra (service person), did not exist. Kshatriyas were rare and the Vaishyas were not present at all. The roles left empty by the absence of these two ritual ...
Higher caste Nair population in Travancore based on old surveys. Illam Nairs constituted more than 70% of the total forward caste Nair population. Pillai, Kurup, Thampi, and Meenachil Karthav, are the common surnames used by Illam Nairs were gifted by the Venad and Travancore royal families to affluent Nairs. [8]
The Maniyani Nair [1] (also known as Kolaya, Kolari, Ayar, Konar, Urali Nair [2] [3] in different areas) is a Malayalam speaking Yadava community, [4] and Nair sub-caste native to Kerala state of South India. [5] They are mainly distributed in Kozhikode, Palakkad, Kannur, Kasaragod and Wayanad districts.
Velakali is a ritualistic martial arts form performed by Nair men in some temples of southern Kerala. [6] The form depicts the fight between the Pandavas and Kauravas. [7] It originated in Ambalappuzha, where Mathoor Panicker, chief of the Chempakasserri army, employed it to boost the martial spirit of the people.
Illathu Nairs, Kiryathil Nairs, Nambiar, Eradi, Samantha Kshatriya, Swaroopathil Nair Samantan Nair , also known as Samanthan Nair or just Samantan [ 1 ] (meaning "equal to" or "deemed to be"), was a generic term applied to dignify a group of sub-clans among the ruling elites ( Naduvazhi ) and feudal lords ( Jenmimar ) of the Nair community in ...
The Thampis and Kochammas are the sons and daughters of the maharajahs of Southern Travancore (Present-day Kanyakumari district and extreme south Trivandrum) and their consorts belonging to Nair caste. [1] The Thampi surname is also used by non-Nair communities, and they have no relation to the aristocratic Nair Thampis.
The Menoky are one of 14 "high caste" Nayar (there are 4 "low caste" Nair sub-castes), and historically served as administrators and feudal landlords. [ 1 ] [ full citation needed ] "Menoki" (or Menoky) were indeed a group or class of people historically associated with the administrative structure under the Zamorin (Zamoothiri) of Calicut in ...
Chakkala Nair, also known as Vattakkat Nair, [1] and Vaniya Nair [2] [3] is one of the intermediate subcastes [4] [5] [6] of the Nair community. They are distributed throughout Kerala. In Travancore, they are known as Chakkala, while in Cochin and Malabar they are Vattakattu [7] and In the extreme north of Malabar they are called Vaniyar [8] [9]