On the Caste Name Nāito in
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2781061 |
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| Authors | M Katre, S M Katre (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 365-366 |
| Publication date | 1957-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x00061929 |
| OpenAlex | W2163987914 |
| Language | EN |
1. Both among the Navāiyat community who speak a dialect of as well as among other speech communities the common word corresponding to the learned caste appellation Navāiyat is either Nāito or Nāityāṁčo (i.e. 'belonging to the Nāitā community'). The Navāiyats (= 'new-comers' according to the Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xv, on Kanara) are chiefly concentrated around Bhatkal, but are also to be found as far south as South Kanara, in connexion with their mercantile interest in cloth trading
Caste · Genealogy · Geography · Linguistics · Word (group theory) · History · Philosophy · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Highly cited | No |
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