Talk:Chettiar
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[edit] Groupism i.e., Caste origin
The origin of groupism i.e., caste seems to have started with people trying to refer to themselves as one group. There was no divisions and sub divisions until different people started competing for the same resources and had to organize themselves into groups to improve their chances in competing.
Lathead 12:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Subdivision origin
Another reason for groupism came from the profession followed by the differnt groups. As people changed professions, they also had to change names to reflect those professions. However they needed to differentiate themselves from people who were already using those professional names. So as people took up farming they had to call themselves Vellala. However since other groups were using Vellala as title, different groups with additional names were created. Thus were created the various groups of Vellala.
Lathead 9:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] New article
I have removed most of the content of this article to Nagarathar because Chettiar is a title not a caste. RaveenS 22:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Links
We seem to have a lot of links here. Are all these external links really necessary or are many of them spam? Poweroid 18:47, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Malayali chettiar ?
there is no native chettiars or shettys in Kerala.Shetty's are those in kasaragode taluka bunts.also shetty is found among konkani's in kerala.there are many non-native people who identifies as malayalis that include tamil Iyyers(brahmins),Vellalars,Veerashaiva's,reddiar,nadar(trivendrum) etc. Pure Malayali's are Namboodiri's(malayali brahmins),Nairs(samantha's),Syrian Christians(st.thomas converts of a mix of namboodiri's,jews of persia etc who follows syriac tradition),Chowwan's(Ezhavans,Thiyyans etc).Chowwans are Schedule castes.while the other 3 are forward castes.apart from syrian christians which are majority Chrisitans in kerala,there are also [i]Latin[/i] Christians who are converted by Portugese and followers of St.Francis Xavier.Latin Christians are found in coastal areas and are SC.they are more related to Goan Christians.
then there are native tribes of ST called Parayans,Pelayans(pulayans) too.apart from these castes all others are outsiders who had embrassed Malayali culture especially Iyers and Konkanis(GSB) I think edit the chetty thing linking with malayali's 59.93.34.158 20:18, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
