• Paravar (also known as Bharathar or Bharathakula Kshatriyar and sometimes colloquially as 'Fernando') is a Tamil maritime community, mainly living in...
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  • romanized: Bhārata, Tamil: பரதர், romanized: Paratar) also known as Bharatakula and Paravar, is an ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka. Earlier considered a caste...
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  • the pooja rituals include devil-dancing, performed by the lower class Paravar or Naike, and the Bunts – who were historically ranked as superior to the...
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    States Government, a company associated with Imam Hossein University, Paravar Pars Company, was involved in the reverse engineering and research, development...
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  • Cruz (Parathavarma Pandian) was born on December 13, 1753 in a Catholic Paravar family, and became the ruler of the Pearl Fishery Coast following the death...
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  • → Malayalamoid → Malayalam India (Kerala) Ambalavasi, Dheevara, Nair, Paravar, Mappilas, Ezhava, Latheen Mappilas, St. Thomas Christians along with significant...
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  • marriages between early Arab Muslim traders of the high seas and indigenous Paravar coastal women on the Gulf of Mannar coast and with Mukkuvar coastal women...
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  • This village is one of the biggest village in Paravar communities. T About 60 years ago, the whole Paravar community, from the East, Vippar to the West...
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    Conversion of the Paravars by Francis Xavier in South India, in a 19th-century coloured lithograph...
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  • significant minority practice Hinduism. Paravar are to be found all over Sri Lanka. Amongst Sri Lankan Tamils Paravar are still a fishing and trading caste...
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    Gowri, Bhaskaran, Bhargavi and Bharathi. His family, belonging to the Paravar caste (whose members are involved in fishery, boat-building, sea trade)...
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  • Christians in the state hail from the Paravar, Nadar, Mukkuvar, Udayar (caste), and Adi Dravidar. The mass conversion of Paravars date back to the Portuguese era...
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  • seafaring and warrior caste. The Paravar and the Thimilar are also among the coastal communities involved in fishing. The Paravars or Bharathas are traditionally...
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  • Krishan Mohammed Rafi "Ab Do Dilo Ki Mushkil Aasaan Ho Gayi Hai" "Banda Paravar Ho Rat Ke Andhere Mein Yun" solo Punar Milan "In Pyar Ki Rahon Mein" C...
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    to the Indian National Congress. He hailed from a wealthy and eminent Paravar family and was also a businessman with ownership in several commercial...
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    Synagogue. The Machados in India were populated after the conversion of Paravar race of Tuticorin (District of Tamil Nadu in India) to Catholicism by the...
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    Portuguese had many involvements in South India, including their support of the Paravars in a trade battle over control of the pearl fisheries of Malabar, but in...
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  • remained popular. Chandrababu was born to a wealthy and eminent Christian Paravar family in 1927 at Tuticorin, India. His father, a freedom fighter, ran...
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    around Kanyakumari were known for pearl fisheries ruled by the Paravars. From 1527, the Paravars, being threatened by Arab fleets offshore who were supported...
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    to convert the Paravars to their own faith but all their attempts failed as the Paravars were firm in their Catholic faith. The Paravars shifted the statue...
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    set up. Francis Xavier was instrumental in a mass conversion of 30,000 Paravar fishermen at Cape Comorin. In this year, the Portuguese fortress of Diu...
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    modern Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to Catholicism, most notably the Paravars. Ancient Dravidian religion constituted of an animistic and non-Vedic form...
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    Social Groups of Tamil Nadu: Badagas, Kongu Vellalar, Iyer, Boyar, Iyengar, Paravar, Nagarathar, Rajus, Nadar, Balija, Pallar, Kamma, Thondaimandala Mudaliar...
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    by the maritime Karaiyars, along with other dominant groups such as the Paravars. In Gampaha District, Tamils have historically inhabited the coastal region...
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  • Caste converted to Christianity, Setty Balija Christian, Nekara Christian, Paravar Christian and Lambani Christian. The Kerala government grants OBC reservation...
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  • in the year 1542, the inhabitants were Christians as they belong to the Paravar community which embraced Catholicism as the result of their contact with...
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  • term applied to the various fishing communities in Tamil Nadu such as the Paravars of the southeast coast, Sembadavars of the inland regions and Pattanavars...
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    Culture of Eastern Arabia – Overview of the culture of Eastern Arabia Paravar – Maritime community in South India Pearl farming industry in China Pearling...
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    out major trade operations with Ceylon, while missionaries converted the Paravars of the Fishery Coast. Portuguese merchants settled in Negapatam in the...
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    Nadu. It is inhabited predominantly by Paravars. Fishing is the primary occupation, as it has been throughout Paravar history. The village hosts St Louis...
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