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Ezhava is a toddy tapper caste / community which lives in Southwestern part of India, known as Kerala. They were former untouchable caste and were seen as Avarnas / Dalits. The Ezhavas are known for practicing fraternal polyandry known as Pandavavicharam , and this was done to prevent excessive splitting of property since Ezhavas were patrilineal.
Person C: Why was he discriminated against by old Malayali people
Person D: He was an Ezhava outcaste
A famous Vratya Kshatriya caste of Kerala(a province in India) which claims matrilineal descent from Nagas in Hindu texts like Puranas, Mahabharata, etc.
Person X : To which community does that brave guy belong to?
Person Y : He belongs to the warrior caste known as Nayars
The term Nagavanshi refers to some of the Kshatriya clans among Hindus, who claim descent from the Nagas and Nagdevtas mentioned in Hindu sacred texts. Most of them trace their origin to sage Kashyapa and his wife Kadru . While some of them trace lineage through Nagas born in Suryavansh (Solar lineage). Some Nagavanshi clans across India are Bais Rajputs, Nadava Bunts, Kiriyathil Nairs, etc.
Person A: What is your lineage
Person B: I am a Nagavanshi , the scion of the Nagas
A caste of Malayala Brahmins who live in Kerala. They are one of the few Brahmins who still preserve the orally transmitted Vedic Shrauta rituals and still practice some of them. Only the elder males were required to be endogamous, the younger males married women of matrilineal upper castes.
Person A : What kind of a Brahmin is he?
Person B: He is a Namboothiri Brahmin
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