Nair or Nayar (Malayalam: നായ൪) is the name of an upper Hindu caste in the Southern Indian state of Kerala. Nairs are an integral part of Kerala's culture and have a long and illustrious history. Nairs are a warrior class (a martial nobility). In this regard, they are similar to the samurai of Japan. The word Nair is either derived from the Sanskrit word Nayaka (leader) or Naga (snakes, which the Nairs worshipped). The Nair class name also encompasses Menon, Panicker, ...

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Nair, Nair - Origins and History, Nair - Some Nair Customs and Traditions, Nair - Nairs Today, Nair - Famous Nairs, Nair - Nair Website

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According to Chattambi Swamigal, who interpreted ancient Tamil texts, Nairs were a Dravidian nobility called the "Naka Lords". Ancient South Indian history refers to the Nairs as a martial nobility, eminent historians, and foreign travelers. One theory is that Nairs are the descendants of the Newars of Nepal, who migrated to Kerala. There are two major facts to support this view. The first is the lighter complexion, and sharper features of Nairs. The second is the distinct pagoda-like architectural style of ...

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Matriarchy is a form of society in which power is conceived as lying with the women and especially with the mothers of a community. The word matriarchy derives from the Latin word mater meaning mother and the Greek word archein meaning to rule. There exists a different term for 'women's rule', it is gynocracy. Matriarchy is distinct from matrilineality, where children are identified in terms of their mother rather than their father, and extended families an ...

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• Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses
• Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology
• Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept
• Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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Pillai is a famous title of Tamil and Malayalam-speaking people of India and Indian origin living in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, etc., Though this surname is predominantly used by Vellala caste population among the Tamil-speaking population, and the Nair caste population of the Malayalam-speaking population, quite a few other castes also use this title. Though this is a Hindu Title, there are Pillais who are Musl ...

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Vanity Fair (2004) is a drama/romance film, directed by Mira Nair. It is based on the novel titled Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero. It stars Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharp. The film was nominated for "Golden Lion" Award in 2004 Venice Film Festival. Tagline: All's fair in love & war. ...

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Alpha Phoenicis (α Phe / α Phoenicis) is the brightest star in the constellation Phoenix. It also has the traditional name Ankaa (phoenix in Arabic). Medieval Arab astronomers formed the constellation of the dhow (small boat) where the Phoenix is, so another popular name for the star is Nair al-Zaurak, or "the bright one of the boat". Ankaa is similar to many of the visible stars of the night sky, being an orange subgiant of relatively average stellar size. It is currently thought to be in the midst of a

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On March 28, 1985, Nair resigned in unclear circumstances. Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew stated in parliament that Nair resigned to get treatment for alcoholism, a charge Nair hotly denied. According to Nair's counterclaim, he resigned under pressure when their political views came into conflict and Lee threatened to seek a motion in parliament to oust him as president. Nair also alleged that he was fed drugs to make him appear disoriented, and rumours were spread about his personal life in an attempt to discredit him. In 1999, an article abou ...

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Devan Nair, Devan Nair - Youth, Devan Nair - Career, Devan Nair - Resignation, Devan Nair - Family, Devan Nair - Sources

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Mira Nair was born in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India, the youngest of three children from a middle-class family. Her father was a civil servant and her mother a social worker. She did her schooling in Bhubaneswar and Simla. She studied sociology in Delhi University, where she became involved in political street theater and performed for three years in an amateur drama company. She left for the US a ...

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A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female. In a matrilineal descent system (= uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother. This is in contrast to the more common pattern of patrilineal descent. The uterine ancestry of an individual is a person's pure female ancestry, i.e. a matriline leading from a female ancestor to that individual. On inheritance by matrilineal kinship ( ...

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Matrilineality, Matrilineality - Introduction, Matrilineality - Judaism, Matrilineality - Nair community

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Orthodox Judaism states that, to be a Jew, one must be either a proselyte or the child of a Jewish mother. This ruling is based on the fact that intercourse between Jews and non-Jews is forbidden, and any offspring resulting from such an act is considered to have no paternity. It is not mentioned directly in the Bible, but derives from the Oral law (Mishnah tractate Kiddushin 3:12). The Talmudic commentary finds scriptural proof from various verses in the Torah ...

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A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female. In a matrilineal descent system (= uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother. This is in contrast to the more common pattern of patrilineal descent. The uterine ancestry of an individual is a person's pure female ancestry, i.e. a matriline leading from a female ancestor to that individual. On inheritance by matrilineal kinship ( ...

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Matrilineality, Matrilineality - Introduction, Matrilineality - Judaism, Matrilineality - Nair tharavadus

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Orthodox Judaism states that, to be a Jew, one must be either a proselyte or the child of a Jewish mother. This ruling is based on the fact that intercourse between Jews and non-Jews is forbidden, and any offspring resulting from such an act is considered to have no paternity. It is not mentioned directly in the Bible, but derives from the Oral law (Mishnah tractate Kiddushin 3:12). The Talmudic commentary finds scriptural proof from various verses in the Torah ...

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Matrilineality, Matrilineality - Introduction, Matrilineality - Judaism, Matrilineality - Nair tharavadus

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Some traditional matriarchal societies have been found to exist still today in each continent, except Europe. Several of them have been presented by scholars and indigenous speakers from still existing matriarchal societies at two World Congresses on Matriarchal Studies. The first one was held 2003 in Luxembourg/Europe, it was sponsored by the Minister of Women's Affairs of Luxembourg, Marie-Josée Jacobs, and organized and guided by Heide Goettner-Abendroth. The second one took place in 2005 in San Marcos, Texas/USA, it was sponsored by Geneviev ...

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Matriarchy, Matriarchy - Matriarchal societies, Matriarchy - Nair Matrifocality, Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology, Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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Some traditional matriarchal societies have been found to exist still today in every continent, except Antarctica. Several of them have been presented by scholars and indigenous speakers from still existing matriarchal societies at two World Congresses on Matriarchal Studies. The first one was held 2003 in Luxembourg/Europe, it was sponsored by the Minister of Women's Affairs of Luxembourg, Marie-Josée Jacobs, and organized and guided by Heide Goettner-Abendroth. The second one took place in 2005 in San Marcos, Texas/USA, it was sponsored by Geneviev ...

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Matriarchy, Matriarchy - Matriarchal societies, Matriarchy - Nair Matrifocality, Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology, Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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Whether matriarchal societies might have existed at some time in the distant past is controversial. The controversy began in reaction to the book by Johann Jakob Bachofen Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World in 1861. Several generations of ethnologists were inspired by his pseudo-evolutionary theory of archaic matriarchy. Following him and Jane Ellen Harrison, several generations of scholars, arguing usually from myths or oral traditions and neolithic female cult-fi ...

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One area where written myths are available from an early period is the Aegean culture-zone, where the Minoan Great Goddess was worshipped in a society where women and men were apparently equals. Gender equality is a typical characteristic of matriarchy, according to the claims of modern Matriarchal Studies. Modern 'Goddess women' are sometimes too quick to assume that any culture that worships a Mother Goddess must be matriarchal. But there are traces, under the insistently patriarchal Olympian mythology of classical Greece, of earlier matrilineal and matrifocal systems ...

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The unclear concept of matriarchy, and of its replacement by "patriarchy" can be linked to the historical "inevitabilities" which the nineteenth century's concept of progress through cultural evolution introduced into anthropology. Friedrich Engels, among others, formed the notion that some primitive peoples did not grasp the link between sexual intercourse and pregnancy. They therefore had no clear notion of paternity, according to this hypothesis; women produced children mysteriously, without necessary links to the man or men they had sex ...

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The idea about a peaceful matriarchal civilisation being put to the torch by patriarchal, nomadic barbarian invaders has lived on as a powerful literary trope. The Nazi ideology of a master race of Aryan patriarchal conquerors was based in part on Müller's hypothesis about conquering Aryans being the founders of the European 'race.' More recent uses of the theme share essentially the same narrative. Goddess worship is one motif referred to by James Joyce in his novels such as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition to Robert Graves, poets ...

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Matriarchy, Matriarchy - Matriarchal societies, Matriarchy - Nair Matrifocality, Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology, Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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The idea of peaceful matriarchal civilizations being put to the torch by patriarchal, nomadic barbarian invaders has lived on as a powerful literary trope. The Nazi ideology of a master race of Aryan patriarchal conquerors was based in part on Müller's hypothesis about conquering Aryans being the founders of the European 'race.' More recent uses of the theme share essentially the same narrative. Goddess worship is one motif referred to by James Joyce in his novels such as Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. In addition to Robert Graves, poets ...

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Matriarchy, Matriarchy - Matriarchal societies, Matriarchy - Nair Matrifocality, Matriarchy - Archaeological hypotheses, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in mythology, Matriarchy - Origins of the unclear concept, Matriarchy - Matriarchies in literature

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