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According to the Herald-News, the Nairs are moving back to India, and were planning to sell the car anyway.
Chicago Real Estate: House In Homer Glen Comes With Mercedes Sports Car 2010
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According to the Herald-News, the Nairs are moving back to India, and were planning to sell the car anyway.
Chicago Real Estate: House In Homer Glen Comes With Mercedes Sports Car 2010
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Burdened with too much debt, the Nairs decided to take their own lives, police suspect.
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The author of the “Spirit of Laws” asserts, that in the caste of Nairs, on the coast of Malabar, a man can have only one wife, while a woman may have several husbands.
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He cannot even stage a convincing anti Muslim riot and the street kids look like a parody of Mira Nairs Salaam Bombay with the worst dialogue delivery I have seen in a recent movie.
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It is true that the Nair caste in Kerala traditionally practiced inheritance through the female line, but 80 percent of Kerala's people are not Nairs.
The Kerala Difference Chasin, Barbara H. 1991
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The Nairs might well have constituted no more than a fifth of the total population, but the practice of giving women a high position in property ownership on the part of a substantial, prominent, and powerful group was clearly influential on the appreciation of women's rights and positions in the society in general.
The Kerala Difference Chasin, Barbara H. 1991
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According to Barbosa (67. 161), a writer of the early part of the sixteenth century, the Nairs, a Dravidian people of the Malabar coast
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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Telli-cherry, and reduced all the places which the enemy possessed on the Malabar coast, in which he was aided by the Nairs, and the other petty Hindu rajahs, who were glad of an opportunity of rescuing themselves from Tippoo Sultaun's rule.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Bussy now retreated towards Cuddalore and Pondicherry; Hyder put himself in quarters near the coast; and Tippoo, with some strong French detachments, hastened to Calicut, to quell a rebellion which had manifested itself among his father's oppressed subjects -- the Nairs, or
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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