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{{Distinguish|Theravada}}[[File:Taravad.gif|thumb|A typical ''tharavad'' reproduced from [[K. M. Panikkar]]'s article published in 1918. Capital and small letters represent females and males respectively. Supposing that the females A, B and C were dead and the oldest male member ''karnavar'' being d, if the male members t, k and others demanded partition, the property would be divided into three parts.]]<br />
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'''Tharavad''' ({{audio|Tharavad.ogg|pronunciation}}) is a [[Malayalam]] word for [[ancestral home]], usually used as the common house for the [[joint family]] system practised by [[Nairs]], [[Ambalavasi|Ambalavasis]], [[Saint Thomas Christians|Syrian Christians]] and [[Nambudiri|Namboothris]] of [[Kerala]], India.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kakkat|first=Thulasi|title=Kerala's Nalukettus|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/keralas-nalukettus/article3784842.ece|access-date=13 December 2017|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=18 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kunhikrishnan|first=K.|title=Fallen tharavads|url=http://www.thehindu.com/lr/2003/12/07/stories/2003120700380600.htm|access-date=13 December 2017|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=12 April 2003}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> [[Hermann Gundert]] in his Malayalam—English dictionary published in 1872, lists ''tharavad'' as "ancestral residence of land-owners" and also as "a house, chiefly of noblemen".<ref name="Gundert1872">{{cite book|author=Hermann Gundert|title=A Malayalam and English Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_8661431_000|access-date=15 February 2017|year=1872|publisher=C. Stolz|page=[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_8661431_000/page/n453 434]}}</ref> Contemporary usage of the word is now more generic to all social classes.{{cn|date=September 2019}}<br />
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