Samantha Kshatriya
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The Samantha Kshatriya are a community of Nair ruling elites and feudal land owners who have historically lived in the Kingdom of Cochin and Kingdom of Travancore in Kerala, India. They share most of their history, traditions, culture and customs with the Kiryathil Nair subcaste, with the latter being eligible to be ritually promoted to the status of Samanthan by means of elaborate Śrauta ceremonies such as Hiranyagarbha. Despite their nomenclature suggesting that they are a part of the Kshatriya class in the Hindu ritual ranking system known as varna, that system has never existed in South India. Anthropologist Christopher Fuller suggests that such claims are vanity and that, "most unbiased observers ... have concluded that the Kshatriya and Samanthan subdivisions should be treated merely
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The Samantha Kshatriya are a community of Nair ruling elites and feudal land owners who have historically lived in the Kingdom of Cochin and Kingdom of Travancore in Kerala, India. They share most of their history, traditions, culture and customs with the Kiryathil Nair subcaste, with the latter being eligible to be ritually promoted to the status of Samanthan by means of elaborate Śrauta ceremonies such as Hiranyagarbha. Despite their nomenclature suggesting that they are a part of the Kshatriya class in the Hindu ritual ranking system known as varna, that system has never existed in South India. Anthropologist Christopher Fuller suggests that such claims are vanity and that, "most unbiased observers ... have concluded that the Kshatriya and Samanthan subdivisions should be treated merely as super-eminent Nair subdivisions". The notable exception to that scholarly consensus is the sociologist Louis Dumont.
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