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NAYAR, or NAIR

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAYAR, or NAIR , a See also:caste or tribe on the W. See also:coast of S. See also:India, who See also:form the dominant See also:race in See also:Malabar. Traditionally they are soldiers, but many have taken to professions, and one was in 1910 a See also:judge of the high See also:court at See also:Madras. Their See also:total number in all India in 1901 was just over one million. Their most See also:peculiar customs are: (I) marumakkattayam=" descent through See also:sister's See also:children," or See also:inheritance, in the See also:female See also:line; and (2) sambandham, a loose form of See also:union, taking the See also:place of See also:marriage, without any responsibility of the See also:husband towards either wife or children. In 1896 an See also:act of the Madras legislature enabled a See also:saraband See also:ham to be registered, and have the force of a legal marriage. Little See also:advantage has been taken of this act, while it is alleged that the sambandham now usually lasts for a lifetime. See Malabar See also:District Gazetteer (Madras, 1908).

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