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the modern Paraiyan". He says that these people were believed to be associated with magical power and kept at a distance, made to live in separate hamlets outside villages. However, their magical power was believed to sustain the king, who had the ability to transform it into auspicious power. Moffatt is less sure of this, saying that we do not know whether the distancing was a consequence of the belief in their magical powers or in Hinduism's ritual pollution as we know of it nowadays.
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performed a ritual function by composing and singing songs in the king's favour and beating drums, as well as travelling around villages to announce royal decrees. They were divided into subgroups based on the instruments they played and one of these groups – the Kinaiyan – "was probably the same as
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converted many Paraiyars to Christianity by the early 19th century. During the British Raj, the missionary schools and colleges admitted Paraiyar students amid opposition from the upper-caste students. In 1893, the colonial government sanctioned an additional stipend for the Paraiyar students. The
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to describe an organisation, which was probably Srinivasan's Parayar Mahajana Sabha. In 1895, he established the People's Assembly of Urdravidians (Adidravida Jana Sabha), which probably split off from Srinivasan's organisation. According to Michael Bergunder, Thass was thus the first person to
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drum or by integration into the low-status labouring groups who were generically called Paraiyar. Thus, it is thought that Paraiyar came to have many subcastes. According to 1961 Madras Census Report, castes that are categorised under Paraiyar include Koliyar, Panchamar, Thoti, Vettiyan, Vetti,
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describes an essentially continuous process of expansion of the nuclear areas of the caste society into forest and upland areas of tribal and warrior people, and their integration into the caste society at the lowest levels. Many of the forest groups were incorporated as Paraiyar either by
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defeated them and destroyed Buddhism in southern India; as a result, the Paraiyars lost their culture, religion, wealth and status in the society and become destitute. In 1898, Thass and many of his followers converted to Buddhism and founded the Sakya Buddha Society
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Thass continued his campaign against the term, and petitioned the government to discontinue its usage, demanding punishment for those who used the term. He incorrectly claimed that the term
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Scholars such as Burchett and Moffatt state that the Bhakti devotationalism did not undermine Brahmin ritual dominance. Instead, it might have strengthened it by warding off challenges from
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300 BCE – 300 CE) has led him to favour Caldwell's earlier hypothesis. The literature has references to the Tamil caste system and refers to a number of "low-born" groups variously called
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There are also references to "Paraiya chieftainships" in the 8th and 10th centuries, but it is not known what these were and how they were integrated into the Chola political system.
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s, which were separate hamlets of the Paraiyars. Also living in separate hamlets were the artisans such as goldsmiths and cobblers, who were also recorded in the Sangam literature.
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Vellam, Vel, Natuvile, Pani, Pambaikaran, Ammaparaiyan, Urumikaran, Morasu, Tangalam, Samban, Paryan, Nesavukaraparayan, Thotiparayan, Kongaparayan, Mannaparayan, and Semban.
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colonial officials, scholars, and missionaries attempted to rewrite the history of the Paraiyars, characterising them as a community that enjoyed a high status in the past.
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M. Srinivasa Aiyangar, writing a little later, found this etymology unsatisfactory, arguing that beating of drums could not have been an occupation of so many people.
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missionary, said that the Paraiyars were self-evidently the "disinherited children of the soil". English officials such as Ellis believed that the Paraiyars were
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Burchett, Patton (August 2009). "Bhakti Rhetoric in the Hagiography of 'Untouchable' Saints: Discerning Bhakti's Ambivalence on Caste and Brahminhood".
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Thass subsequently attempted a Buddhist reconstruction of the Tamil religious history. He argued that the Paraiyars were originally followers of
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in 1818, where he writes that the Paraiyars "affect to consider themselves as the real proprietors of the soil". In 1894, William Goudie, a
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Historians such as David Washbrook have argued that the socio-economic status of the Paraiyars rose greatly in the 18th century during the
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temple, but he was himself not allowed to enter the temple. The Paraiyar regard Nandanar as one of their own caste. Paraiyars wear the
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with pride. In 1892, he formed the Parayar Mahajana Sabha (Paraiyar Mahajana Assembly), and also started a news publication titled
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by occupation, belonged to a Paraiyar elite. In 1892, he demanded access for Paraiyars to Hindu temples, but faced resistance from
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In a few inscriptions (all of them from outside Thanjavur district), Paraiyars are described as temple patrons.
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Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India
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The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru
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entering the English language as "a synonym for the socially ostracised and the morally depraved".
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and constituted the original population of India. According to him, the Brahmanical invaders from
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as a word referring to an occupational group first appears in the second century CE writings of
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is the mother goddesses who are installed in the homes of the Parayas and worshiped by them.
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This poem is sometimes interpreted as evidence of there being only four castes in ancient
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member who founded the organization Brahma Pratyaksha Sadhujana Paripalana Parayar Sangam
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Vincentnathan, Lynn (June 1993). "Nandanar: Untouchable Saint and Caste Hindu Anomaly".
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is a ritualistic dance drama performed once a year by the Paraya community in Kerala.
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was not found in any ancient records (it has been, in fact, found in the 10th-century
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By the early 19th century, the Paraiyars had a degraded status in the Tamil society.
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Party System Change in South India: Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes
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Irschick, Eugene F. (1994), Complete book at Cdlib, but without page numbering
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Nandanar's Children: The Paraiyans' Tryst with Destiny, Tamil Nadu 1850 - 1956
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Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies; I.S.P.C.K. (Organisation) (2000).
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as an alternative term, and formed the Dhraavidar Mahajana Sabhai (Dravidian
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were a priestly class among the Paraiyars, and served as priests during
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Untouchable Citizens: Dalit Movements and Democratization in Tamil Nadu
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toiling under a system of bonded labour that resembled the European
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passed a resolution that officially censured the usage of the term
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councillor — made successful efforts for adoption of the term
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Dimensions of Social Life: Essays in honor of David B. Mandelbaum
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Bergunder, Michael; Frese, Heiko; Schröder, Ulrike, eds. (2011).
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The Light and the Dark: Dualism in ancient Iran, India, and China
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An Untouchable Community in South India: Structure and Consensus
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Christianity is Indian: the emergence of an indigenous community
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as the alternatives to Hinduism, because caste differences had
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India's silent revolution: Rise of lower castes in North India
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is performed to please the deities through music and drama.
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Dominant Scheduled Caste found in South India and Sri Lanka
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and the Paraiyans and the Katampans, there are no castes.
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Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795–1895
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comprised castes with an agricultural basis while the
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Other than the Tutiyan drummers and the Panan singers
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Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India
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Dravidians
/pəˈr.ə/
pə-RY
caste
Indian states
Tamil Nadu
Kerala
Sri Lanka
Robert Caldwell
Tamil
parai
hypothesis
Gustav Solomon Oppert
Sanskrit

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