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To: Nandu who wrote (3487)	1/23/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) of 12475

KERALA-The New Namboodiris Anil: Here is an interesting article I found in India Today about our place. ====================== Some do it for jobs and others for social acceptance. In Malappuram and Thrissur districts lower castes can enter the brahminical order for a price. By M G Radhakrishnan About seven decades ago, Kerala's conservative Namboodiri (Malayalee Brahmin) community witnessed an unprecedented upheaval. Led by a band of young radicals like E.M.S. Namboodiripad, the reformers, under the slogan of "Namboodiriye Manushyanakkuka (make the Namboodiri a human being)", exhorted the community to shun its cloistered ritualistic way of life. Hundreds of Namboodiri men and women responded to the clarion call and boldly broke a multitude of traditional age-old conventions and laws: they learnt English, sent their women who had hitherto been the victims of the oppressive patriarchal system to school, allowed inter-caste marriages and the remarriage of widows, and renounced symbols of their caste like surnames, the sacred thread and even their distinctive lock of hair..... india-today.com

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