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Contents 1 Groupism i.e., Caste origin 2 Subdivision origin 3 Table 4 Copyright issues 5 Livingstone 6 Seperate Article for Conversion 7 The page lacks consistency 8 Move to Paravars 9 Style Editing 10 Added category 11 Paravar and maravars

[edit] Groupism i.e., Caste origin

The origin of groupism i.e., caste seems to have started with people trying to refer to themselves as one group. There was no divisions and sub divisions until different people started competing for the same resources and had to organize themselves into groups to improve their chances in competing.

Lathead 12:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Subdivision origin

Another reason for groupism came from the profession followed by the differnt groups. As people changed professions, they also had to change names to reflect those professions. However they needed to differentiate themselves from people who were already using those professional names. So as people took up farming they had to call themselves Vellala. However since other groups were using Vellala as title, different groups with additional names were created. Thus were created the various groups of Vellala.

Lathead 9:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table

Please feel free to modify the table I have added. I have used the colour blue to signify sea Doctor Bruno 15:06, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issues

This article obviously has very serious copyright issues, as much (perhaps all?) is copied from other sources. We'll have to figure out whether we should just delete it all or if anything is original and salvagable.--Pharos 09:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The article will get refined in due course. Any article written by volunteers, is bound to have some "inspirations". Portions which are violating copyright has to be removed. But to delete an article jusst because a few points are copied may be painful for other contributors Doctor Bruno 19:52, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

There are serious bias attached to the article, it reads like a mild-toned Christian hagiography. NPOV is seriously violated

[edit] Livingstone

Can some one clarify the confusion associated with this actor being added and removed in the listDoctor Bruno 00:35, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Seperate Article for Conversion

Can we have a seperate article for the Conversion section Doctor Bruno 15:56, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The page lacks consistency

Could someone with knowledge in this area please make a decision as to whether the group of people should be referred to as 'Paravas' or 'Paravars'. I do not know which is the predominent spelling. Pheasantplucker 23:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Paravars is the correct spelling Doctor Bruno 15:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Move to Paravars

Can this page be moved to Paravars and a redirect placed at this page Doctor Bruno 01:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Style Editing

This page reads as being fairly awkward and unclear to me right now. I am going to try to fix it up as best as I can over some time but I will have to take it in chunks. I've started with and cleaned up the introduction today. One question though, from my admittedly limited knowledge of Romance languages La Pescaria would have to do with fish and not pearls. Someone who knows Portuguese might be so kind as to answer? Dalassa 04:28, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

I've tagged this article for cleanup to address the issues I've brought up earlier and because I currently do not have enough time to do the job properly. Right now it needs major editing to make it read like an encyclopedia.Dalassa 13:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added category

Added category indian christians.--71.30.177.228 06:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paravar and maravars

The paravars and maravars were the two royal kshathriya clans of Pandya kingdom,who controlled sea and lands of ancient tamilnadu.Now both these communities got alienated from each other due to political reasons.One of reasons is the conversion of sea faring parava caste to christianity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.236.78.179 (talk) 15:07, 2 June 2008 (UTC)