Subsistence modes of Nayar of India

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Subsistence modes of Nayar of India

Introduction

Nayar, also spelled Nair is a Hindu caste of the Indian state of Kerala. Before the British conquest in 1792, the region contained small feudal kingdoms, each of which the royal and noble lineages, the militia, and most land managers were drawn from the Nayars and related breeds. During British rule, Nayars became prominent in politics, public administration, education, medicine and law (Conklin, 1961).

Thesis statement

Nayar are an important part of Indian culture whose mode of subsistence depends upon agriculture.

Mode of subsistence and dealing

In this paper an ethnographic description, and a kind of functional analysis of Nayar family, subsistence mode and culture is provided. We try to understand how the culture integrates with the Nayar, their livelihoods and worldview. An effort is also put in to understand the original migration and settlement Nayar historical society in the forest habitat in the old days in terms of adaptation and adaptation of livelihood as employed by Cohen (1968) and Ellen (1982), respectively.

With reference to the shift to growing cash crops and the continued existence of their original habitat, i.e. in Protected Areas has recently stated, the process involves a constant dialogue and interaction with the Forestry Department and other agencies state, is analyzed in terms of negotiation as used by Norstrom (1999) and conforms to the requirements of this analysis.

During the last fifty years or so, studies of traditional societies, from a pattern of resource use to another in their environmental contexts, changing conditions, were collected in a cultural-ecological framework developed by the waiter. Being a widely discussed approach in anthropology, cultural ecology is characterized by a preoccupation with adaptation. In general, the cultural ecologists have tended to emphasize the technology and economics in its analysis of cultural adaptation, because it is in these aspects of culture that differences between cultures, as well as differences over time within a culture are more evident (Forde, 1963).

Viewing the process of economic change in a community from a historical perspective, both for its own history and also in relation to the history of the region, gives a better understanding of the transition of communities under the impact of contacts and external influences. According to Cohen (1968:3), the adaptation of a population is the relationship with their habitat.

The concept of adaptation is historical: when we say that a population is adapting to say that is altering its relationship with its habitat to the habitat in a suitable place to live, or to become more fit to live in that environment. So when we say that a human group adapts to its habitat, you have achieved and maintained a viable relationship with their habitat.

Achieving this kind of workable relationship always the result of changes in habitat through changes in energy systems group and its organization of social relations over a long period of time, never achieved in a generation.

Collective livelihood and culture Nayar

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