Paravar (also known as Bharathar or Bharathakula Kshatriyar and sometimes colloquially as 'Fernando') is a Tamil maritime community, mainly living in...

romanized: Bhārata, Tamil: பரதர், romanized: Paratar) also known as Bharatakula and Paravar, is an ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka. Earlier considered a caste...

the pooja rituals include devil-dancing, performed by the lower class Paravar or Naike, and the Bunts – who were historically ranked as superior to the...

significant minority practice Hinduism. Paravar are to be found all over Sri Lanka. Amongst Sri Lankan Tamils Paravar are still a fishing and trading caste...

States Government, a company associated with Imam Hossein University, Paravar Pars Company, was involved in the reverse engineering and research, development...

marriages between early Arab Muslim traders of the high seas and indigenous Paravar coastal women on the Gulf of Mannar coast and with Mukkuvar coastal women...

seafaring and warrior caste. The Paravar and the Thimilar are also among the coastal communities involved in fishing. The Paravars or Bharathas are traditionally...

Conversion of the Paravars by Francis Xavier in South India, in a 19th-century coloured lithograph...

→ Malayalamoid → Malayalam India (Kerala) Ambalavasi, Dheevara, Nair, Paravar, Mappilas, Ezhava, Latheen Mappilas, St. Thomas Christians along with significant...

Christians in the state hail from the Paravar, Nadar, Mukkuvar, Udayar (caste), and Adi Dravidar. The mass conversion of Paravars date back to the Portuguese era...