Udayar (caste): Difference between revisions

According to Selva Raj, the Udayar are "socially bestowers" than the [[Vellalar]] community<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEJ-vMgbSlwC|title=Sacred Play: Ritual Levity and Humor in South Asian Religions|last=Raj|first=Selva J.|publisher=SUNY Press|year=2010|isbn=9781438429793|editor1-last=Raj|editor1-first=Selva J.|location=|page=87|chapter=Serious Levity at the Shrine of St. Anne in South India|accessdate=2012-05-01|editor2-last=Dempsey|editor2-first=Corinne G.}}</ref> but, together with the [[Pallar]] and [[Kallar(caste)|Kallar]], form the Marava castes, who are quite dominant in the region variously known as [[Ramnad]] and the [[Maravar]] country.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto |first=Selva J. |last=Raj |title=Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines |editor1-first=Selva J. |editor1-last=Raj |editor2-first=Corinne G. |editor2-last=Dempsey |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2002 |page=86 |isbn=9780791455197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zv42cV5dQmYC |accessdate=2012-05-01}}</ref>