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{{Short description|Southern Indian Vedic and Tantric Brahmin inter-dependent communities}}
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{{unreferenced|date=May 2021}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox ethnic group
|image =
|group = Kanyakumari Brahmins
|poptime=
|popplace = [[Thiruvananthapuram]], [[Nagercoil]], [[Suchindram]], [[Kanyakumari]]
|region1 = India
|langs = ''Historical:'' [[Sanskrit]], [[Pali]] <br /> ''Modern:'' Local languages, primarily: [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Malayalam]]
|rels=[[File:Om.svg|15px]] [[Hinduism]] (100%)
|related = [[Iyer]]s, [[Iyengar]], [[Namboothiri]] and different [[Brahmin]] Communities.
}}

'''Kanyakumari Brahmins''' are a social group of Vedic as well as [[Tantra|Tantric]] [[Brahmin]] inter-dependent communities mainly found in [[southern India]], and are basically known to represent a geographic-identity based [[Shaiva]]-[[Vaishnava]]-[[Shakta]] spiritual and political union. This unionist system of worship is supported by a monastic melting pot of [[Vadama]] people of the [[Thiruvananthapuram district]] of [[Kerala]] and [[Kanyakumari district]] of [[Tamil Nadu]], along with descendants of [[Nambudiris]], [[Iyengars]], [[Iyers]], [[Madhwas]], and other [[Indo-Aryan people]] who migrated to the region in different waves to support pilgrimage in the region. The word Kanyakumari Brahmins means the Brahmins whose common ancestors, before any [[schisms]], had settled around the greater [[Kanyakumari]] region which includes south Kerala and Tamil Nadu and Brahmins here, irrespective of all superficial differences, respect it as a common identity and do religious rituals in the [[Suchindram]] temple together.

This region also known as [[Ay Kingdom]] was spread to the borders of [[Central Travancore]] in ancient times. [[Vadamas]] are believed to be the migrants from the north of [[Vindhya]] reaching the other coast of [[Tambapanni]] in the south crossing [[Pamba River|Pamba]] after [[Agastya]] and [[Pulastya]]. All sub-groups of Kanyakumari Brahmins were believed to be the ancestors of local [[Iyengars]] as well as the local [[Namboothiris]] and others in ancient [[Suchindram]], who also share a common ancestry irrespective of their faith.

All these [[Hindu]] sub-groups have ancestors who co-existed peacefully with [[Buddhists]] and [[Jainism|Jains]] and share [[Pali]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Malayali]], [[Tamil people|Tamil]], southern [[Pandyan]] and even ancient Yogic traditions and heritage with their neighbours. The ancient ports in this region connected the people to [[Sri Lanka]] and [[Maldives]] as international trade brought migrants from many parts of India and other kingdoms in this geographic triangle which had a common economic and melting pot cultural history until the British rule began.

It is to be noted that though the patrilineal
predecessors of Kanyakumari Brahmins, and Tamil Brahmins in general, were of Indo-Aryan origin, they mixed with the local native [[Dravidian peoples]] over the span of hundreds of years, so much so that the genetic makeup of these Brahmins is now majorly Dravidian with Indo-Aryan underlay.

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/brahmins-seek-15-per-cent-reservation/article1334333.ece Brahmins seek 15 per cent reservation]
* [http://www.tamilbrahmins.com/ Tamil Brahmins Community]

[[Category:Brahmin communities of Kerala]]

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