Feb 21
To understand the origin of the Mallu Nairs, we first have to understand the history of the Tamilians, the neighbours of the mallus.
Long Long Ago, only Brahmins lived in TamilNadu. They are nowadays popularly known as Tambrahms. When the English first landed on the shores of Tamil Nadu, much before they had explored other continents, they were surprised to see people who spoke a strange language , wore strange clothes , even had strange markings on their forehead and other parts of the body. So, when they enquired around (in English of course), there were few who ran away and there were few who answered “Naan Brahmin” and then ran away fearing that the English would spoil their orthodox holiness. “Naan Brahmin” in Tamil means “I am a brahmin”. The English were not expected to understand this and classified this group of people as non-Brahmins. Thus, Non-Brahmins came into being and the English exploited this to create the caste system in India. In fact, all south Indians were only vegetarians at that time. A similar misunderstanding led to few people being understood as non-vegetarians and thus forced to eat meat.
Now, Brahmins consisted only of Iyers in the olden days. But, there were two “different” classes of iyers. One, who worked for daily wages and the other, who had their own businesses. The second category prospered over the years and eventually made enough money to buy and import cars from England. This group wanted to differentiate itself from the daily wage group. So, whenever they had to introduce themselves, they always said “Iyer with car”.Over the next 132 years, this phrase “Iyer with car” slowly evolved to “Iyengar”. Thus started the quest for dominance between the Iyers and the Iyengars.Since the Iyengars had cars, they slowly moved towards the eastern part of Tamil Nadu near the coast, where they made broad roads like the modern ECR, while the Iyers moved onto the hills close to the borders of Kerala.
Now back to Mallu nairs. When the British reached Kerala and started moving inwards towards the Tamil nadu Border, they were shocked to see two similar group of people at war with each other. Both were dark, spoke unintelligible language (they learnt later that both the languages were different) and yet, were fighting each other for control of the coconuts. So, the British started enquiring. Of course, the locals didn’t know English, but were proud of their own culture and identity. Since the British (through Knowledge Transfer) from their counterparts who landed in Tamil nadu, already knew about Iyers, they assumed that all dark people in this people were Iyers. So, they started addressing even the Mallus as Iyers. This enraged the mallus a lot and they started adding “Not an Iyer” at the end of their names like Harish “Not an Iyer”, Anil “Not an Iyer”. Because of the accent of the Mallus and the evolving of language over time, the surname “Not an Iyer” stuck to the mallus and it eventually transformed to Nair. Thus, we have harish Nair and Anil Nair.
All you Nairs, be proud of your history and be proud of the fact that you are “not an Iyer”.
Note: Looking at the comments, it looks like people are taking this post seriously and have started defending mallus/nairs and offending everyone else! Guys (and Gals), this post is meant to be taken in a light note. I am a s/w engineer, not a genealogist, So please don’t start off advising me on the history of the various groups. If you even have an iota of thought that anything that is written makes sense, thank you!
Note 2: If your comment has not appeared here (after a day or two), it is a deliberate act of mine and not a technical glitch. I am not approving comments which are full of expletives/hate stuff directed towards any group of people, be it mallus, iyers, tamilians or even punjabis! This article was intended in good humour, but if you dont get it or dont want to interpret it so, i can’t help it. But, i can’t let morons (like the ones hanging around on the rediff.com forums) start a hate war between communities or groups on my blog!
Note 3: After spending the last 4 years (after writing the above) on intensive research, i am almost ready to publish the history of the Mallu Menons. So, keep watching this space 
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February 24th, 2007 at 1:19 am
Never knew this funda though Iam an Iyer.
Your site is good and great job.
keep up the good work boy!
February 25th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
I can’t wait to hear what happened when the English went to bengal…
March 5th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
First time here
Good one…Seriyaana Rouzeaa irukku…
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:43 am
is it really true i cant believe that…
April 4th, 2007 at 8:07 am
so, when the english went to mumbai, did they find MIYERS….
June 7th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
good work
http://www.eyekerala.com
June 15th, 2007 at 5:39 am
I hate these kinds of Morons, who spoil the essence of blogs. This entire blog is a total crap. I know girls are idiots, but i never thought it is really true to this extent. I can only get convinced with a non-sense reply from the “Greatest Idiot on Earth” , vaishnavi, You are a shame and total disgrace to Iyers. I knew from Day one, this concept of blogs websites is gonna let fools like Rajaram post any kind of non-sense. It is really disgusting. Hairsh Nair, dont you have better site to know about the evolution of Nairs, rather than believing in what ever, this moron writes. Go and learn from your ancestors.
June 15th, 2007 at 6:00 am
Hi Anon, if you really want to give your “comment” (be it positive or negative, more for the case of it being negative), at least don’t hide behind the cloak of an anon login.
thanks for ur feedback though ..this will help me decrease my level of “moron”ness.
August 28th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
hehehehe
you really are jobless in CC…
this is the most crazy and stupid thing i have ever heard…
come and knock next door to know more about nairs…
October 7th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
WOW ! So, you spoke about anil nair and harish nair. Would this apply to me too? Rajesh Nair
November 18th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Dinesh:-
MY GOODNESS ! WHEN PEOPLE LIKE U R THERE IN THE WORLD , WHY DO WE NEED NUCLEAR WEAPONS….
December 18th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Thanks for emailing the link Mr, Harish Nair… Keep sending links like these.. Awesome !!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Dear Mr. Rajaram Seturam ,
The humour you intend to generate is a parody and well away from facts.
I do not think that just because google gives you some space to blog ,you keep writing whatever comes in your mind .
Please refrain from writing such nefarious contents in the future.
To read more facts about the Nairs’ just follow the link below:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair
vivek nair
December 19th, 2007 at 12:50 am
Mr. Vivek…I don’t think this qualifies to be called as “nefarious” ..
Since you seem to be offended by these, i hope that you are practising whatever you are preacing ..i.e
1) You don’t encourage Sardarji/Punjabi jokes
2) You don’t watch TV at all, because you would exhaust your income sending complaint letters to all the channels which make fun of ppl/their practices/their accents etc
and btw, “just because google gives you some space to blog ” is untrue, because the space is mine and i pay for it.
thanks for the link, it might give me more ideas
Have a nice day!
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 am
Ha, ha … this was classic. Even better I love the way some people respond to this like “vnair”. That guy has to obtain some sense of humor (pronto)
I’m not against this. And believe me I laugh at Kerala jokes. My blog wasnt about the jokes, but the hatred some people have at us. And the word “mallu” is short for “malayalee”; its just that I’ve heard it used against me like it was a swear word. That’s why I hate it.
Nice blog. A good laugh is just what this world needs.
August 28th, 2008 at 7:19 am
What a poor effort?
September 24th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Awesome boss! I am a Nair and I loved this. Ignore the folks above who do not get humour, when they see one. We Indians will laugh at others, but cannot stand a little harmless fun at ourselves. Great job indeed! Looking forward to more
October 9th, 2008 at 4:39 am
what rights are there for iyers to talk about the people of kerala. these nairs ad namboothiris were having great relationship.both of them contributed to the culture of kerala.there is no manthras and poojas at kerala temple without a namboothiri. and the entire kshetrolsavam and commitee is ruled by nairs.they are the temple account holders.and these tamil brahmins iyers migrated to kerala(palghat).tvm etc.just to prevent themselves from hearing them as pandis. many of the others migrated are having same concept.but one thing is there .THE KERALA LAND AND CULTURE AND ALL BELONGS ONLY TO MALAYALEES .WE ARE MANY IN NUMBER WE ARE ONE.AND KERALA BELONGS TO US.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
are you educated… if not its so hopeless ..
October 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
if i am not educated then see some of the books which tells about people of kerala.and there is nothing mentioned about iyers or any thing or so.then you can say me hopeless.okkk
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
LOL
Thnx for letting us know the history of nairs.
Long back one nair migrated to tamil nadu and he conquered the hearts and minds of all Pandis there. his name was MGR.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:08 am
whatever written here is rubbish . the name nair has a much gratter orgin the nair cast is much grater.It is linked with kalaripitu. The word Nair lends itself to two etymological interpretations. The first interpretation is that the word Nair is derived from the Sanskrit word Nayaka meaning leader. The Sanskrit word Nayaka appears in various forms in southern India (Nayakan/Naicker in Tamil Nadu, Nayak in Karnataka and Maharashtra, and Nayudu in Andhra Pradesh) and the word Nair has been suggested to be the corruption of Nayak in Malayalam.[14][15][16] The second interpretation is that the word Nair is a corrupted form of the word Nagar- serpent men because Nairs practiced snake worship.for further risult see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair and dont belive this stupid.
March 8th, 2009 at 10:15 am
hari om:
sir.nairs r a malayali kshtriyas ……they r from nepal…and anthroplogist also opine nairs r from “nayan mara “tribe in south america…….
i discern from ur view abt the term nair is from iyer…….nairs r nayaks- leader ,they r of dravidian and aryan roots..they r naga worshippers……….still every nair tharavdu has kavu…
they follow matriarchy……and women r held in high esteem……..where iyers and others women were confined only within house hold…….widowhood is least tolerated among tamil brahmins a nair women had and has say over her life……..
April 12th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
mate,, that was disgusting n interesting at the same time,,,
April 17th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Hey…Nice to hear this new story…
April 19th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
simply hopless–author reads to educate himself!
April 19th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
In the first place the whole article is some kind of a caricature.. for those who enjoy humor, this article may suit them very well. But the way the article has been structured, tries to make believe that they are “Facts”. I am not against entertainment, humor or creativity. It is just wrong information that would do the round abouts.
In the first place, Britishers were not the first foreigners to reach India, they were the Portuguese who landed in Calicut, that is in Kerala.
Second, its not the Britishers who created the caste system in India. It started in the period when Aryans entered India. They created the caste system with four castes- Brahmins, Kshathriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. Nairs are of the Kshathriya caste. And for your information all malayalis are not Nairs. (Like your article suggests “Not an Iyer”) Proof of existence of caste system is the rise of Budhism which was the first organized movement to abolish caste system in India (It all happened before Britishers arrived in India)
We may credit the Britishers for oone thing though. They were the first ones to explore the evolution of the caste system in India. Various British sociologist have come up with theories of Caste- “Political theory” “Traditional theory” “Evolutionary theory” etc.
Iyers and iyyengars were different from the beginning, when the evolution of Bhakthi movement when there was Shaivism and vaishnavism… Iyers were Shiva worshippers and Iyyengars were Vishnu worshippers and not like the article suggest that Iyyers were daily wage earners.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Goodness me… I just stumbled upon this page (Being a nair myself couldnt resist to ignore any thread with that name) and ROTFL. This is cool stuff and I couldnt help appreciate the humour. Just loved it..
Wonder why some people get into so much history… this page has nothing to do with any of it..
May 19th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I can say only one thing in the subjects.
Iyers& all bhamans are cowards & so hide behind blog and write shit of warrior peoples like Nairs. In public he do chamchagiri & private character assassination.
Even holy Guru land up in trap of kashmiri brahmins and sacrifice his two small children to Mughals.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:45 am
Happen to see n read this blog ! Rubbish that is all I have to say
August 18th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Nair (Malayalam: നായര്, pronounced [naːjar]), is the name of a Hindu[1] forward caste from the southern Indian state of Kerala. They are a Kshatriya caste belonging to the Nagavanshi order. [2][3] Before the British conquest in 1792, the Kerala region contained small, feudal kingdoms, in each of which the royal and noble lineages, the militia, and most land managers were drawn from the Nairs and related castes like Maarans.[4] Nairs were prominent in politics, government service, medicine, education, and law.[5] Nairs constituted the rulers, warriors and landed gentry and of Kerala (pre-1947).The Nairs constitute the one of most important section among the Hindus of Kerala. Nairs were traditionally matrilineal.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am
dear sethu ram dont produce this kind of arrogant blunder abt such a kind of powerful community of kerala ,hope u ll not disgrace your credentials at all again
thnk u
August 19th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Sir,
It was defenitly interesting to read your blog. But your sircasm is lost on people with limited imagination. Also some people may taker it seriously and believe that your view is the correct information. In other words may get mis lead. please avoid misleading people.
August 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
mr.nair… your photo is additional disgrace for you..spit on you… go and make nair tea for others… who told you bhramins were the initial people in tamil nadu? did some one tell you when you were selling tea… bhramins came to tamil nadu to beg in olden days… you mallus came to tamil nadu to beg later… go and die…
August 21st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
hey, you are not correct man.. you know what.. bhramins came from north india before the english came to india. they came to do pooja in temples.. basically they are people you worship vishnu.. every bhramin worships vishnu.. when they came to the south.. some bhramins changed to worship shiva.. so some bhramins did pooja in shiva temples called iyers.. some did pooja in vishnu temples and called iyengars.. and i dont know about nairs..
August 31st, 2009 at 3:49 pm
good one! like your style.
For the other commentators.. take it easy guys.. this article tagged as humour.. iyer, iyengar.. apppa swammy.ayyoo…..always the best..
September 16th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Hi totally misleading blog.
October 15th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
the below mentioned comment,by mr.advice, is a total disgrace for kerala people.
advice:you mallus came to tamil nadu to beg later… go and die…
we didnt go to TN for begging.we are doing business and working in all kind of areas.we have shown our capability in all walks of life.MGR,justice Fathima Beevi (former governor),P Vasu,Goutham Menon(Directors),Yesudas,Chithra,Unni Menon,Unnikrishnan(Singers),Arya,Naren,Prithviraj(actors) to name a few.
mind your language.for your info most of the beggers in Kerala are tamilians and lot of construction workers come to kerala from TN since they are paid better there.
October 19th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Sethu,
I am one of those “Not-an-Iyers” of Kerala. Your piece wasn’t particularly funny. But some of the responses it elicited are pure riot! Like some of the respondents have requested, I too would like to “learn” from your erudite scholarship as to what happened when the Brits travelled to other parts of India from Tamil Nadu. Be warned, however – caste, religion and language are serious issues in India. You can joke about them only among close friends; and even there, if you do, please watch your back!
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:27 pm
BIG indian problem, always preoccupied with race, caste and dogmatic religious rituals like bathing the idols. however my personal opinion is we are all related malus or tamilan or even someone in the pacific ocean. all our languages have been confounded and until the day we seek our maker which is one, there will be much confusion and division among the children of god. imagine this malayalam and tamil is closely related which mean the people are too, get a life and do something worthwhile for mankind. all inventions and discoveries in the last 100 yrs comes from the west and they contributed much to our present life style like planes,phones,trains,space exploration and medicine.who is the blessed ones and who is cursed ? who cares where iyer or nairs come from anyways.
god bless you
January 28th, 2010 at 10:17 am
HAHAHAHAAHAHAAAHHAHA, Thats the greatest bull-shit i have ever gone through. I dont beleive in caste system created by some maipulative jarheads who called themselves brahmins & dont even know the meanin of brahmin.
And as far as kerala is concerned there is archeological evidence of the presence of brahmin society in Kerala since 700-900 A.D. Brahmin society includes nairs. Factually nairs never existed as a group caste until independence. It was only wen, the importance of categorising people for better administration was realized that a group as nairs formed. Nairs existed as a caste and were the lowest in the Chaturvarna system. Chaturvarna system in kerala – brahmins,menons,kurup,panicker,…………..,nairs.
Since the country was in hand of brahmins they, generalised all in chaturvarna exept themselves as nairs.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:25 am
So even varmans are nairs!!! it is very intriguing if u try to find out hw cum a person wearing a sacred thread n stuff is not accepted as brahmin nowadays.
Well to understand this and a lot of important similar intriguing stuff, u must first stop lostenin to the self-assumed brahmans, ur ammuma and put on ur thinkin caps. use logic, reasonin, politics n history as ur weopons.
Lets go bak to 700-900A.D. that time almost all of india was budhist, courtesy to ashoka. there wer lot of viharas n stuff, but only few practiced hinduism. One of them was Mr.Parashuraman. I firmly disagree that he was an avatar and he created keralam from the waters. That was just another theory used by the Jarheads to conquer the mind of people.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:37 am
Dont beleive me, ok through archological evidence Jarheads settled in Kerala only after 700A.D. But Parashurama was born and died much b4 this period. And supposedly he had distributed Keralam to 64 Jarhead families. I dnt know hw this can be logically matched…Nw 700A.D Jarheads flee their northern state governed by kshatriyas to find a state of their own. they end up in a beautiful land called keralam. they cum with letters from kings of other lands to greet them with warmth. and people do. the king of kerala-cheraman perumal gives them respect, honour n privilege, since he beleived they are close to God. Jarheads so their thin space. God a beautiful Jarhead babe married to Cheraman, & started controllin him thru her. Cheraman gave permission to built temple. But inside those walls, it was a fortress of traitors. inside those walls they quitely planned hw to outst the king, hw to take hold of people n hw to ultimately etablish a brahman land.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Jarheads were good at usin occult, or use of spirits. and they creatd fear among peopl that only Jarheads can protect them and that hinduism was tru path to reach God. people started covertin in masses. cheraman dint mind, since there was nothin against him yet. those people who got converted into hinduism wer sworn into caste system, that which the Jarheads followed in north. n those who dint accept their terms wer made outcaste. By the time Cheraman realised his people were movin away from his control, things got late. Cheraman left his Jarhead bitch and warned all other kings under him of the situation. But no1 really bothered, cheraman left to madurai n first brahmin ruler established himself at cheramans place. Nw there is a theory that cheraman convereted to islam n left for mecca. but considerin the political situation then, it is obvious that mecca story was just another cooked up shit by the Jarheads, so that people wl remove him frm their hearts permanently.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:52 am
B4 cheraman left he had warned his sub-kings and distributed land to more relatives for better governance. that particular incident is termed by the Jarheads as “Parusharama distributed land among brahmans”.
nw lets c hw brahmans after takin cheramans place established rule over entire kerala. well, cheraman was the head-king, all other kings were his subordinates. so jarheads had caught delhi, hw difficult is it to get remainin part of the country. they visited other kingdoms and offered kings to convert into hinduism. kings refused, jarheads offered them brahmanism n jarhead babes. kings had no other way, since public was in hands of jarhead. through some ceremony the rulin class was converted into brahmans. So finally a Brahman state established. all those acceptin brahman supremacy were allowed a place in chaturvarna. the others wer outlaws/outcastes.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:59 am
u kno jarheads know this truth, thats y varmans are still counted as nairs n nor brahmins. those in the army n converted to hinduism wer called nairs. u wll find many menon fair, but normally nairs, panickersm kurups r dark. if u go by famous theory that nairs are nepalese, hw do u substantaite the this fact. menons came along with brahmins from north. remainin all were original inhabitants. n kalari was thus not created by nairs, it was already there through the ages with the indegenous people of keralam. n even after chaturvarna, ezhavas also practiced kalari, some of the best kalari ashans and chekavars were ezhavas. then hw cum kalari was established by nairs. UR text is bullshit.
Probably u must b of the Jarhead clan. So if u have changuorrapu, do not moderate my text. let them read n let those who find reason find it.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Hey what is this bullshit? this blog overshadow the original history of Nairs. Stop the nonsense. Nairs are people belonging to Dravidian Stock differ from Aryan Iyers. Infact Nairs are the pure form of ancient Tamil Nagars, Kings of Chera Country. Iyers or Iyengars or what ever brahmins all are Aryans.
March 13th, 2010 at 11:31 am
OMG, what a variety of whacked up stories about mallu nairs. there is no comparision between tamil iyers and mallu nairs. I rather find tamil iyers far more intelligent, reliable and sensible than the mallu nairs who are arrogant scoundrels.
June 11th, 2010 at 10:59 am
hi Rajaram…
if this was intended for pure humour…….. i could tolerate it…. when even ur Tamil brothers will discard it as MOKKAI,,,, and we Malayalis call it a CHALU…………..
South Indians have been known for their Intelligence …. not only in India but also around the world, be it a malayali, a tamilian, a kannadiga or a telegu….
but looking at the ur Humour ( if u call ur blog humorous) u justify the famous quote…. “There Is Always an Exception”….. Being Humorous is requires one to be intelligent…… its ok bro there is always an exception…..
in fact i feel bad for what u have written not because its something to do with nairs……….. but by looking at ur desperate attempt to make pple laugh……..
but if u were serious and no humour was intended…. then i feel sorry for u,…
Nairs are the Kshatria clan from Kerala……
and i came accross an Interesting fact about them thought i should share…
Nairs were the first to defeat any European army for the first time in Asia.. under king Martanda Verma …. and the brigade was called Nair Pada…..
they defeated Dutch…in Battle of Colachel
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Colachel)
but as u said its ur Blog … u can write whatever u want…..
thanku
Sir Rajaram
ha ha ha ha
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:35 am
Nairs are the Malayalee warriors (Kshathriyas) of Kerala. They are the owners of this land.
Nair – Hindu Caste of the Indian State of Kerala. Before the British conquest i.e. 1792, the region contained small feudal Kingdoms in each of which the royal and noble lineages, the militia and most land managers were drawn from Nairs and related caste. During British rule, Nairs became prominent in position, Government Service, Medicine, Education and Law.”
Nair – A people of Malabar coast of India that are probably Dravidians with Aryan admixture.
No other society had possessed their status or standard. They were deeply immersed with the history and culture of Kerala. Truly speaking, the history of Nairs is indeed the history of Kerala.
(Oxford Dictionary)
July 20th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
hey , i just came here from google.
nice article and remember only a Nair can make fun of Nairs and get away with it 
.. so dont mind the backlash and yes I am a Mallu and not a Nair !
July 20th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Hello rajaram,
You be ready to know the sharpness of the sword of Nairs. we are 14.6% of kerala population. Our language & People are the best. Allandu ninde ummaki tamil allada PATTARE. This Brahmin people only know to eat and eat and sleep & fart… But we work hard and are strong. Our attire is one of the best one and wereas you wear a KONAN.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:51 am
Allow me; i know it’s a south Indian quarrel; but pls allow me…
Go back to that Sardar Jaspreet’s remarks. His Angreji is poor but his thoughts underlining the issue are not.
Can anybody refute his view; going by empirical evidence and the recorded history of the Sikhs and Rajputs-NO!
That, I believe should nail the argument.
November 15th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Visit http://mudaliars.co.nr for the origin of Vellalas.
November 19th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
pure rubbish …….. the author has to seriously study about Nair’s … or he’s an ignorant person just fooling around .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair
anyways who cares cmon its 21st century … but yea true Nair’s got good genetics of a warrior ..
November 19th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
U bloody idiot……. Never in my life have i heard any crap like this before….. Keep up the gud work…. U excel at being the dumbest among ur lott…….
February 12th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
who is the manalar in nair community ?still anybody lives in kerala?
March 18th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Dear friends,
Some of you were partially right, Iyers are not original brahmins. They are the low cast people who started following advaita philosophy due to the advent of Adisankara. That can be proved genetically. 60% of the southern tamilnadu iyers are dark similar to other tamils and its being genetically proved that they share close genetic similarities with other tamil class. But rest of the people are fair and that is the reason to uphold them as Aryans. The reason being fair is they have mixed up with fair vaishnavites in due course of time. Meanwhile Nairs are true Kshatriya. Keralamahatmyam texts account them as Yajnopaveetham Vanna Kshatriya. (People who threw away the sacred thread). The word Nair is being interpreted for the last 2100 years across texts; from accounts of Magasthenes to ancient tamil texts of Alwars. Iyers are present in kerala since many centuries and their social status is below Nairs. Namboodiris do not consider anybody other than a Namboodiri to be a true brahmin and Nairs never considered anybody other than them as Kshatriyas. Both as well as considered viceversly. So Iyers never got an image as a Brahmin in kerala, instead depicted themselves as good cooks. Iyers were good cooks in kerala. The only remembered word about iyer in history of kerala is that they bought Idly and Dosa and Vada into kerala cuisine. Meanwhile Nairs were great warriors, Protectors of temples during invasions, Rulers, Nourishers of great culture and stood and still stand as the backbone of Hinduism in God’s own country and stand as the most spread professionals in all fields around the globe.
March 19th, 2011 at 7:03 am
come on anybody leave me some reply
April 13th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
This is ridiculous. Origin of Nairs is not certainly as you mentioned.
Further reference is there in Wikipedia; which is infact with evidence.
Also foreigners first landed on kerala coast( Kappad beach in calicut) and not in T nadu.
May 8th, 2011 at 12:48 am
dude…admit it, u wrote most of these comments yourself. The level of retardation in some of them is too high to be authentic
May 9th, 2011 at 7:18 am
nair_dude, i agree with you about the “retardation” part …but go over and look at the others forums on rediff, indya etc. You will find even more interesting specimens
July 2nd, 2011 at 12:14 am
Are you really nuts or pretending to be one?please take your crap out.it stinks!
August 3rd, 2011 at 9:45 pm
scoundral….
August 23rd, 2011 at 12:13 pm
All that I can say is you bloody moron will rot in hell and may all the bad things happen to you.
90% of Indians are morons. They judge people by their surnames and color. If u go to kerala you’ll see how many nayars are fair. Its just tamilians and people from andhra who are black like soot.
Tamilians are the ones who spoilt the image of south indians. With rajnikant temples praying them and taking dark retarded actors in film industry to star along with punjabi actresses.
So before you write such a stupid blog roam around and check everything first.
August 23rd, 2011 at 12:15 pm
The mallu thing was started by some retarted menon posing as lola kutty. Bloody bitch.
September 2nd, 2011 at 3:21 am
brilliant….I am reminded of the joke about a tambram, who when asked about the leaning tower of pisa, commented “Nikkumo nikkaado”. Fine play with words…
September 13th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Mr Rajaram, what is your real intension?. After hurting lot of people sentiments you really want to highlite your name & to befamous? Buying a space is not at all a big thing but what you write there,that is matters,.
Untill unless you really dont know anything about nair communinty,please keep quiet and dont write anything like a mentally retarded person does.
I dont know whether you will enjoy the origin of this author by adding some mazzala’s and make it a blog. Definitly some people will encourage that one also but will you treat it on the same way?
Being a s/w engineer you should write in a responsible way. If you really want to know the origin og Nair community try to make out using the below link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nair
September 28th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Loved this post!!, Wonder why cant some people take this hilarious post as the way its intended to be..
Keep writing!
October 12th, 2011 at 11:55 am
Please dont try to mislead the public if you are not aware of the facts 7 history. This will disgrace you as well.
October 28th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
I googled for “communities of kerala” or something like that and reached here. At first I was reading it seriously. A few lines later I went all “what the!” and started giggling
Your brand of humour closely resembles my father’s. Keep up the good work.. Iniyum ezhuthu 
November 8th, 2011 at 9:14 am
Nairs of kerala are pure aryan who are the descendents of nagavansi kshathriyas of ancient India.many of NAIR communities customs resemble aryan’s.serpent worship(nagaradhana) was not the culture of dravidians.Dravidian tribes followed patriarchal system.more than that,LATEST STUDIES PROVED THAT according to the analysis of HLA Class I haplotypes, Nairs were most similar to Western European groups.
November 8th, 2011 at 9:18 am
yes swathy ,u r right.According to ff fawcett opines that the resemblance between nayars and uriyas of Gumsoor is striking. Quoting him – ‘But the circumstance that inheritance through women was once, perhaps, the rule in Southern India cannot be accepted as of itself proof that the Nayars are identical with the Dravidians, as the people of Southern India are commonly called. It is not yet time to say whether they are or are not. To the ordinary visitor their outward appearance, customs, habitations, mode of life generally, are very different from what he sees in the Telugu or Tamil countries; for Malabar, ” the west coast,” is as unlike the rest of the Presidency as Burma. The only other district of the Madras Presidency which resembles Malabar, is Ganjam, more particularly the northern part of it, where the people are almost entirely Aryan. The resemblance between these, the Uriyas of Gumsoor and thereabouts, a fine fighting stock, and the Nayars of Malabar is very striking. It is not, perhaps, a mere coincidence that in these two furthest remote corners of the Presidency alone, the people at large are to be seen wearing umbrella hats to protect them from the sun.’
November 8th, 2011 at 10:06 am
according toThomas R, Nair SB, Banerjee M -A crypto-Dravidian origin for the nontribal communities of South India based on human leukocyte antigen class I diversity. – The present study reveals that the HLA diversity of the Dravidian communities is very distinct from that in the other world populations. It is obvious that the non tribal communities of Kerala display a greater Dravidian influence, but traces of genetic admixture with the Mediterranean, western European, central Asian and East Asian populations can be observed. This article analyzes a set of South Indian non tribal and tribal groups to determine their similarity to other ethnic groups. In conclusion here, what was found was that according to the analysis of HLA Class I haplotypes, NAIRS WERE SIMILARTO WESTERN EUROPEAN GROUPS
November 8th, 2011 at 10:10 am
according to an other study the analysis of HLA Class I haplotypes, Nairs were most similar to Western European groups.
November 8th, 2011 at 10:17 am
the characteristics of nairs like tall body,wavy hair,hairy body,melanin content,sharp chin,flat forehead,structure of nose ,comparatively little space between the nose and upper lip ect shows that Nairs are true Aryans.
November 8th, 2011 at 10:30 am
thinking scientifically,swetha is right(by common sense also. ).90% of nairs are fair like north indian aryans.swetha you should add one more charachtaristic feature to the above list “long face(length breadth ratio)” of nair people like europeans.
November 21st, 2011 at 2:41 pm
dear whatsoever iyer,
i know that being an iyer is a burden but still u will have to carry it just like your saadam and poriyal. but what you said about nairs is all crap. the nairs are indo-scithian Naga Vamsha Kshatriya’s who travelled from Ahi-Chatra (Ahi mean Naga in Sanskrit) i.e. rohilkhand of present times. they migrated along with the Namboothiri’s (the most orthodox and purest vedic brahmins in india for eg: Sri Adi Sankara), unlike the iyers). They settled in Tulu Nadu first and then migrated to Kerala. Their mother tongue was Nagari and they never spoke tamil. Present day Bunts of Tulu Nadu (aishwarya rai is a bunt) and Nairs claim similar ancestry. The kula daivam is Adi Shesha or Ananta (you find a Sarpa Kavu – Abode of the Serpents, in every ancient Nair Taravadu). They named their capital as Thiru Ananta Puram. They intermarried with the ancient royal lineage of ‘AY’ dynasty (Nagar+Ayar = Nayar).There conquest of Kerala in the Eight century created the language Malayalam (Tamil + Nagari). And that is why we do not need a Grantha Script like the tamilians to translate complex languages like sanskrit into our language. And all a bit of icing in the cake – JOHN NEUHOFF
A Dutch traveler to Kerala in 1664 wrote an exhaustive travelogue on the Nairs of Kerala wrote that the Nairs of Kerala are the best warriors in the world. This he said after travelling 80 countries including Greece, Rome & Egypt . Happy Learning. Jai Hind
November 27th, 2011 at 3:42 am
The Nairs/ Menons/ Nambiars in Kerala have no similarity with the other caste groups, it is obvious, most of them are light skinned, they look very different from the other lower castes there who have more aboriginal features like other non-brahmins in southern india. It is also observed that Nairs and Bunts have very similar cultural and physical traits, Namboodiris, Tulu Brahmins all migrated along the Konkan coast and are not related to the native lower castes in Kerala. Like the experts say, Konkan means no man’s land, there were not much habitat there, groups moved from north and also from the interior hills aboriginal tribes. The vedic Hindu rituals, and also the Nag worship is prominent among Mangalore bunts and Malabar Nairs. Nag worship and matrilineal system is common among some groups in the foothills of Himalayas, Himachal, and Mewar region of Nepal. The brahmins, bunts, Nairs are very different from the mainland non- brahmin south indians like that in AP, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, who are mostly dark skinned. The word Dravidian applies mainly to the non- brahmin tamilian people and also large population in AP and Eastern parts of Karnataka are of the same stock as the dark skinned tamilians. Same way there are large populations of dark skinned tribals/aboriginals in Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand etc.
But the anthropological, and Hindu vedic cultural thread among non-tribals runs throughout entire India which is the same in Malabar or Konkan as is in Northern India.
Jai Bharat. Jai Hind.
November 27th, 2011 at 3:51 am
Rajaram,
well, I do understand your post was written in good humor, people here took it in an offensive manner which is not called for. But there are so many myths and misconceptions about castes and manu system. British and europeans spread lot of lies in india about castes to suit there needs.
November 27th, 2011 at 5:58 am
thanks Jai. I wonder why many don’t read the disclaimers spread all over the post
December 7th, 2011 at 6:00 pm
I am a nair and is proud of my heritage, unlike you ugly tamil pandi.
January 12th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
iyer with a car = iyenkar & Harish “Not an Iyer = harish nair ha ha lol……stupid but funny though!
January 13th, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Nairs are just a caste in kerala. They admitted the supermacy of namboodiris.
and gained wealth and positions. In no way they are superior to any others.
Dear Nair friends get rid your false knowledge. if you came to know the real thing, you will be ashamed to say that you belong to this caste.