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1. Christianity in India: from beginnings to the present By Robert Eric Frykenberg

None of these people, except possibly the Nairs of Kerala and the Rajus of Andhra, have been viewed by some as Kshatriya

2. The Great Pioneer in India, Ceylon, Bhutan & Tibet

The Kshatriya or soldier caste is practically identical with the Rajputs of North Central India, and the Nairs of the south. Outside the three " twice- born castes, the whole of the mass of the Indian people were classed as Sudras

3. The Cambridge Economic History of India: c.1200-c.1750 By Tapan Raychaudhuri, Irfan Habib, Dharma Kumar

Within South India, It was only in Kerala that there emerged warrior lineages approximate to the Kshatriya model. Nayar ' Kshatriya-hood ' was thus based on special ecological conditions within the south Indian macro-region

4. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay, Volume 5 By Asiatic Society of Bombay, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Bombay Branch

Ushavadata succeeded his father in law, for after mentioning an expedition of his into Malabar to aid the Kshatriya (Nair) rulers, against the rebellious natives of the province

5. The Suma oriental of Tome Pires: an account of the East, from the Red Sea to ... By Tomé Pires, Armando Cortesão, Francisco Rodrigues

Nayar is the caste corresponding to the Kshatriyas, second in importance to the Brahmans. At present, Nair or Nayar is a title added to nearly all the names of the race, and it is, like Mister or Esquire, assumed as a birthright by any

6. The Penny cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge By Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)

The Kshatriya, or military class is said by the Brahmins to be extinct. But the Rajpoots and the Nairs in the Deccan in all probability belong to this class

7. India: a modern history by Thomas George Percival Spear

For instance, apart from the Nayars of Kerala the Kshatriya or warrior order is virtually nonexistent in the South

8. The west of England miscellany, Volume 1, Issue 1

The Rajpoots and Nairs in the Deccan are supposed to belong to the Kshatriya. If the class be extinct, as the Brahmins allege, this may be owing to the peaceful character of the people, their freedom from foreign invasion, and the commercial habits which characterise the Hindoo

9. Some Aspects of Nayar Life by K. M. Panikkar

They are considered generally as a Dravidian variety of the Aryan Kshatriyas

10. The Relative Autonomy of Party Practices: A Counterfactual Analysis of Left Party Ascendancy in Kerala, India, 1934–1940 Manali Desai

The two dominant castes—Namboodiris (Brahmins or the priestly caste) and Nairs (Kshatriyas or the aristocratic caste)—stood at the apex of the system of customary obligations and rights, and together they appropriated the largest share of the cultivator's product