Samanta_Kshatriya References

The Samantha Kshatriya are a community of Kerala, India. They were historically ruling elites and feudal aristocrats in the Kingdom of Cochin and Kingdom of Travancore.^[1] 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.^[2] Anthropologist Christopher Fuller, suggests such claims are vanity and that "most unbiased observers ... have concluded that the Kshatriya and Samanthan subdivisions should be treated merely as supereminent Nayar ( Nair) subdivisions". The notable exception to that scholarly consensus is the sociologist Louis Dumont.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Fuller, Christopher J. (December 1975). "The Internal Structure of the Nayar Caste". Journal of Anthropological Research. 31 (4): 283–312. doi: 10.1086/jar.31.4.3629883. ISSN 0091-7710. JSTOR 3629883.
^ Barnett, Marguerite Ross (2015) [1976]. The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India. Princeton University Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-0-69164-407-3.

[fuller-1] Fuller, Christopher J. (December 1975). "The Internal Structure of the Nayar Caste". Journal of Anthropological Research. 31 (4): 283–312. doi: 10.1086/jar.31.4.3629883. ISSN 0091-7710. JSTOR 3629883.

[2] Barnett, Marguerite Ross (2015) [1976]. The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India. Princeton University Press. pp. 15–16. ISBN 978-0-69164-407-3.

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