Three nairs were accordingly sent to the factory, one of whom the Castilian pointed out as the King's nephew, and advised that he especially should be strictly watched.
The translators employed by the BanAº MAºsAi were paid at the rate of about 500 dA-nAirs a month (ibid.
This legalised disorder appears to be exaggerated, but it is the natural consequence and result of the carrying out of Plato's theories with regard to the destruction of family among the nairs or military caste.
These nairs when they enlist to live with the king, bind themselves and promise to die for him; and they do likewise with any other lord from whom they receive pay.
These nayrs have great privileges in this matter, and the nayr women even greater with the peasants, and the nairs with the peasant women.
In general when these nairs are seven years of age they are immediately sent to school to learn all manner of feats of agility and gymnastics for the use of their weapons.
Though the nairs were deprived of their fathers, it appears that they retained their own family relations: the "divine Plato!
And even if the nairs were not in his company when the man they guard was killed, they would not any the less revenge his death.
And it is said that the kings made this law in order that the nairs should not be covetous, and should not abandon the king's service.
Their lineage does not mix with any others; only the nairs may have mistresses amongst the women of these people, so that they do not enter their houses without bathing and changing their clothes, whenever they have visited them.
Several passages descriptive of the customs of the nairs of Malabar in this work present very forcibly the connection between Plato and the Hindus.
His most recent statement involves the theory that the method of the Nairs of Malabar, living in polyandrous households (many men to each woman) was the earliest form of 'marriage.
The "free love" of some advanced women, I take it, is but the free choice doctrine in vogue among the Nairs and kindred races of people.
The Nairs are described as being the handsomest people in the world; the men being tall, sinewy and extraordinarily agile, while the women are slender and graceful, with perfectly modeled figures.
The Sultaun took the field in person against the Nairs in January of the ensuing year, and prosecuted the war against them with the utmost energy.
Those Nairs who would not accept the conversion offered, were hunted like wild beasts and destroyed in thousands.
It is true that the pariahs have one day in the year when all the Nairs they can touch become their slaves, but the Nairs take such precautions to keep out of the way at the time, that an accident of that kind seldom happens.
It is further recorded by Buchanan [129] that "the whole of these Nairs formed the militia of Malayala, directed by the Namburis and governed by the Rajahs.
These Nairs live outside the towns separate from other people on their estates which are fenced in.
But among the Nairs the man as husband and father cannot be said to exist; he is reduced to the most subordinate role of the male--he is simply the progenitor.
The Nairs are in no respect a people of primitive culture.
An instructive example of the joint maternal family is furnished by the Nairs of Malabar, where we see a very late development of the clan system.
When the nairs understood who we were, they asked the Persians why they carried me along with them, without licence from the king?
The nairs belonging to the Samorin or king of Calicut, which are Malabars, are always at war with the Portuguese, though their sovereign be at peace with them; but his people go to sea to rob and plunder.
The Nairs have their wives in common among themselves, and when any of them goes into the house of one of these women, he leaves his sword and buckler at the door, and while he is within no other dare enter the house.
Footnote 74: Probably meaning Nairs or Rajputs, who are reckoned of a high or noble cast, next to the Bramins--E.
The nairs or gentlemen may not begin to eat, till one of them has dressed and set the food in order, with certain ceremonies, but the lower orders are not bound to such rules.
The people here are Malabars, of the race of the Nairs of Calicut, who differ much from the other Malabars.
The zamorin would not at first believe the information, having conceived a good opinion of their fidelity, yet sent four of his nairs to examine into the truth of the information.
The wages of the nairs are four carlines each, monthly, in time of peace, and six during war.
Lastly it is worthy of remark that the Franks entertain antipathy and hatred only towards Muhammadans, and to their creed alone; evincing no dislike towards the Nairs and other Pagans of similar description.
His body-guard and most of his aristocracy consisted of Nairs and Nestorian Christians, but all commerce was in the hands of the Muhammadan merchants.
They burnt the palace, but were hotly attacked by the Nairs when they endeavoured to retreat.
It is well known that with the Nairs of Malabar the rule of female succession is absolute, and that the son of a sister succeeds to the exclusion of the possessor’s son.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
