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| ''']''' (also known as ''Nayar''), is the name of a Hindu ] from the Southern Indian state of ]. The Nair community as of 19th century was divided in many subdivisions. | |||
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| The ] listed a total of 128 Nair subdivisions in the Malabar region and 55 in the ] region, as well as a further 10 in the ] area but outside Malabar. There were 44 listed in Travancore in the census of 1901.<ref name="Fuller1975">{{cite journal |title=The Internal Structure of the Nayar Caste |first=C. J. |last=Fuller |journal=Journal of Anthropological Research |volume=31 |issue=4 |date=Winter, 1975 |pages=283-312 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3629883}}{{subscription required}}</ref> | |||
| ==Historical evidence== | |||
| The 17th century '']''<ref name = "Gundert">Dr. Hermann Gundert, Keralolpathiyum Mattum, (Band 4, Hermann Gundert Series, Eight works published during 1843-1904) (Kottayam: Current Books, 1992), p 185</ref> which is a work purported to be written with the ulterior motive of promoting Brahminical supremacy mentions different subdivisions of Nair caste. While Kiriyathil Nayars were considered prominent in Malabar and Cochin, Illathu Nairs were prominent in the hierarchy in the Travancore.<ref>{{cite book | title = The tribes and castes of Cochin Volume II| author = L.K. Anantha Krishna Iyer| publisher = London: Luzac and Co| year = 1912 | pages = 15–16}}</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
| * ] | |||
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Nair Subcastes}} | |||
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