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Encyclopedia Britannica



NAYAR, or NAIR

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 318 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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