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nambudiri-brahmins of kerala
The nambudiris of Kerala appear to have settled on the south west strip of the coastal region after arriving there from, what is today, the regions of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in the early part of the first millenium A.D.They kept intact the correct enunciation of the vedic chantingorally transmitted from around 3000 B.C.from generation to generation. This fossilised form of oral discourse was maintained in its pristine purity in spite of the Dravidian linguistic ambience of the region which permeated and changed the speech tradition of the nambudiris. ===The tambrakkal phenomenon=== Nambudiris settled in 64 communities, half of them in malayala naduand half intulunadu. It is believed that each community orgramamhad a chieftain with essentially religious and marginally temporal powers to arbitrate, adjudicate and enforce his well judged decision upon thje members of the community.

azhvanchery tambrakal
If dispute arose between or among the tambrakals, they approached azhvanchery tambrakal  for the last word on he issue which was irrevocable. kirangat family One of the prominent communities was the "Perumanam Gramam" The Kirangat family seems to have served as the tambrakalsof that community. Now, this original family is known as three separate families: The Perumbillissery Kirangat family, the Vadukkiniyedath Kirangat family, and the Thekkiniyedath Kirangat family.The last is popularly called desamangalam family. Desamangalam family has for more than four generations shown great aptitude for business, industrial manufacture and publication industry.University education, western mores, and staunch observance of hereditory smartaand sroutarituals have intermingled perfectly in their outlook and activities. Desamangalam family had been much involved in the modernisation process undergone by the nambudiris in the first decades of 20th century. Whether building of schools, instituting rural libraries or encouraging the romantisist and realist movements in Malayalam literature, mambers of the family have spared no effort or money in changing the social structure of Central Kerala.

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