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pulayarThe Pulayar (also Pulaya, Pulayas, Cherumar, Cheramar, and Cheraman) is a caste group mostly found in modern-day Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka and historically in Tamil Nadu.
paraiyarParaiyar, Parayar or Maraiyar (formerly anglicised as Pariah and Paree) is a caste group found in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and in Sri Lanka.
tamil brahminTamil Brahmins are an ethnoreligious community of Tamil-speaking Hindu Brahmins, predominantly living in Tamil Nadu, though they number significantly in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana in addition to other regions of India.
kerala iyers
panchalnounA surname.
kiryathil nairKiryathil Nair or Kiriyath Nair also known as Vellayama Nairs is a Kshatriya subdivision of the Nair caste of martial nobility, who performed the functions of Kshatriyas in Kerala, India.
nambudirinounAlternative form of Namboothiri. [A Malayali Brahmin of the Nambūdiri subcaste, traditionally the most elite in the Indian state of Kerala, and known for extreme orthodoxy.]
koerinounA traditionally agricultural Indian caste also referred to as Maurya and Kushwaha in northern India.
saurashtra peopleThe Saurashtra people, or Saurashtrians, are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic Hindu Brahmin community of South India who speak the Saurashtra language, an Indo-Aryan Gujarati language, and predominantly reside in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
sri lankan vellalara caste in Sri Lanka, predominantly found in the Jaffna peninsula and adjacent Vanni region, who comprise about half of the Sri Lankan Tamil population.
shahnounA king of Persia or Iran.
malayali brahminMalayali Brahmins (also known as Malayala Brahmanar) or Kerala Brahmins are the group of Brahmins from the Indian state of Kerala.
marathanoun(more broadly, among historians) A Marathi-speaking people particularly associated with Maharashtra; a member of said people (regardless of caste); frequently used attributively.
tamilsThe Tamils, also known as the Tamilar, are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry mainly to the southern part of the Indian subcontinent.
kannada people
mahishya(IAST: Māhiṣya) a Bengali Hindu traditionally agrarian caste, and formed the largest caste in undivided Bengal.
shaikhs in south asia
jatavJatav, also known as Jatava/Jatan/ Jatua/Jhusia /Jatia/Jatiya, is an Indian Dalit community that are considered to be a subcaste of the Chamar caste, who are classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's system of positive discrimination.
chera dynastyThe Chera dynasty (or Cēra, ), was a Sangam age Tamil dynasty which unified various regions of the western coast and western ghats in southern India to form the early Chera empire.
banjaranounA community usually described as nomadic people from the northwestern belt of the Indian subcontinent.

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