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{{Infobox Ethnic group<br />
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|group = Chakkala Nair<br />
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|popplace = [[Malabar (Northern Kerala)|Malabar]], [[Travancore]].<br />
|languages = [[Malayalam]]<br />
|religions = [[Hinduism]]<br />
|related = [[Nair]]s<br />
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'''Chakkala Nair''', also known as '''Vattakkat Nair''',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Menon|first=Krishnat P. Padmanabha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQNxAAAAMAAJ&q=chakkala+nair|title=History of Kerala: A History of Kerala Written in the Form of Notes on Visscher's Letters from Malabar|date=1984|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0167-3|pages=194|language=en}}</ref> and '''Vaniya Nair'''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Kumar Suresh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRQwAQAAIAAJ&q=vaniya|title=People of India: Kerala (3 pts.)|date=2002|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|isbn=978-81-85938-99-8|pages=299|language=en}}</ref> is one of the intermediate [[Nair_subcastes|subcastes]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Pallichan and [[Chakkala Nair|Vattakad]] were treated as an intermediate class of Shudras because there was neither inter-dining nor inter-marriage between the members of these subdivisions and the high caste Shudras-Census of India, 1961 - Volume 7 |page=19}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book|last=Institutions|first=Kerala (India) Commission for Reservation of Seats in Educational|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1dFAQAAIAAJ&q=Vattakkattu+Nairs|title=Report of the Commission for Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions, Kerala, 1965|date=1966|pages=141|language=en}}</ref> of the [[Nair]] community. They are distributed throughout Kerala. In [[Travancore]], they are known as Chakkala, while in [[Cochin]] and [[Malabar (Northern Kerala)|Malabar]] they are Vattakattu<ref name="fuller">{{cite journal|last=Fuller|first=Christopher J.|date=1975|title=The Internal Structure of the Nayar Caste|journal=Journal of Anthropological Research|volume=31|issue=4|pages=283–312|doi=10.1086/jar.31.4.3629883|jstor=3629883|s2cid=163592798}}</ref> and In the extreme north of Malabar they are called Vaniya<ref>{{cite book|title=In the extreme north of Malabar they are called Vaniya-MADRAS GOVERNMENT MUSEUM Bulletin, Vol. 11/, No. 3 AANTHROPOLOGY NAYARS OF MALABAR (WITH ELEVEN PLATES)|location=http://www.e-books-chennaimuseum.tn.gov.in/chennaimuseum/images/books/madras%20government%20museum%20bulletin,%20vol.%20III,%20no.%203%20anthropology%20nayars%20of%20malabar%20with%20eleven%20plates.pdf|page=203}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Singh|first=Kumar Suresh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRQwAQAAIAAJ&q=vaniya|title=People of India: Kerala (3 pts.)|date=2002|publisher=Anthropological Survey of India|isbn=978-81-85938-99-8|pages=299|language=en}}</ref> <br />
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Vattakattu Nairs<ref>{{Cite book|last=Institutions|first=Kerala (India) Commission for Reservation of Seats in Educational|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1dFAQAAIAAJ&q=Vattakkattu+Nairs|title=Report of the Commission for Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions, Kerala, 1965|date=1966|pages=141|language=en}}</ref> are now indistinguishable from other Nair subcastes through alliances with other Nair communities and is treated as part of the mainstream Nair community by the government of Kerala<ref>Kerala government official forward caste list[https://kerala.gov.in/documents/10180/7d2a15ad-daa1-4edd-ad9c-a507cb20f822]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Institutions|first=Kerala (India) Commission for Reservation of Seats in Educational|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1dFAQAAIAAJ&q=Vattakkattu+Nairs|title=Report of the Commission for Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions, Kerala, 1965|date=1966|pages=141|language=en}}</ref><br />
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According to eminent scholars [[Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan]] was born in a Chakkala Nair family of Thrikkandiyoor Amsam in Vettathunadu<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tarakan|first=Ke Eṃ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3nhkAAAAMAAJ&q=chakkala+nair|title=A Brief Survey of Malayalam Literature: History of Literature|date=1990|publisher=K.M. Tharakan|pages=26|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Sanskritisation]]<br />
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