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{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}} '''Mannadiar''' is a title used by members of the [[Nair]] caste . Mannadiyars lived in parts of [[Palakkad]]. A majority of Mannadiars are land owners, [[agriculture]] being their traditional occupation, ranging from farmers to large feudal landlords ([[jenmi]]s). Also, some of them are engaged in retail and wholesale trading businesses in Palakkad. The house ([[tharavad]]) of Mannadiars is called "Mannattam" like Illams for [[Namboothiris]].The [[Tharakan (Hindu caste)]] Mannadiyar and [[Nair]] Mannadiyars belong to the general category.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
Mannadiar is an honorific title possessed by ancient landlords. The word is rooted from ''Mun'' or ''Maṇṇú'' ([[earth]]) and ''Nēṭiyavar'' or ''{{transliteration|ml|uṭayōr}}'' (lords, [[Jenmi]] or earners) clubbed to form Mannadiars.<ref name=autogenerated1>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0JCaAAAAIAAJ "Census of India, 1961, Volume 7"] P. 20</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
Mannadiyar is a title, which the Angarath and Vadaseri families of Kerala have . Mannadiyars are Hindus who follow a mixture of Shaivism and Vaishnavism. The palm leaf manuscripts in the possession of Mannadiyars, relate to several Malayalam and Tamil works of poets from Tamilnadu and Kerala. Mannadiyars regularly read the [[Adhyatma Ramayana]] during the Ramayana masam in Tamilnadu and Kerala.<br />
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== Religion ==<br />
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The [[Snake|serpent]] is also worshipped by Mannadiar families (mostly in [[Valluvanad (southern Malabar)|Valluvanad]] areas) as a guardian of the clan. The worship of snakes, <ref name="Nayar1974">{{cite book|author=K. Balachandran Nayar|title=In quest of Kerala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EXIeAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=2011-06-03|year=1974|publisher=Accent Publications|page=85 |quote=The Dravidian people of Kerala were serpent worshippers.}}</ref> is so prevalent in the area that one [[anthropologist]] notes: "In no part of the world is snake worship more general than in Kerala."<ref name="Iyer1968">{{cite book|author=L. A. Krishna Iyer|title=Social history of Kerala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UU5DAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=2011-06-03|year=1968|publisher=Book Centre Publications|page=104}}</ref> Serpent groves (Pāmpin Kāvú) were found in the [[Points of the compass|southwest]]ern corner of Many of the Mannadiar [[Tharavad]] compound and Sarpa Pooja will be performed once a year by the family members.<br />
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==Traditions and customs==<br />
The Traditions of the Mannadiyars are similar to that of other subdivisions of the [[Nair]] caste in [[Kerala]] and have unique traditions that are found only in Kerala.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Nair]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Social groups of Kerala]]<br />
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