Chakkala Nair

Chakkala Nair, also known as Vattakkat Nair,^[1] and Vaniya Nair^[2] is one of the intermediate subcastes^[3][4][5] of the Nair community. They are distributed throughout Kerala. In Travancore, they are known as Chakkala, while in Cochin and Malabar they are Vattakattu^[6] and In the extreme north of Malabar they are called Vaniya^[7][8]

Vattakattu Nairs^[9] are now indistinguishable from other Nair subcastes through alliances with other Nair communities and is treated as part of the mainstream Nair community by the government of Kerala^[10][11][12]

It was the duty of Peru Vaniyan Nambiar^[13] section among Vaniya nairs in Kurumbranad to present the Kurumbranad Raja with oil on the occasion of his formal installation^[14]

Muchilot Bhagavthi is the patron deity of the Vaniya Nair community and serve as the custodian of 108 Muchilot Bhagavathi temples^[15] spread across North Malabar from Tulu Nadu to Kozhikode resembling the 108 Shiva Temples mentioned in the Shivalaya Stothram . It is believed that Bhagavthi first manifested herself to Muchilot PadaNair, a chieftain of Mushika dynasty from the Vaniya nair sect.^[16][17]

According to eminent scholars Thunchaththu Ezhuthachan was born in a Chakkala Nair family of Thrikkandiyoor Amsam in Vettathunadu^[18]

• Pallicchan Nair
• Swaroopathil Nair
• Nambiar (Nair subcaste)
• Padamangalam Nair