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On the Caste Name Nāito in

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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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.

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1957

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References

page 365 note 1 Printed at the Citraśālā Press, Poona, Śaka 1846 = A.D. 1924.Google Scholar

page 365 note 2 ātām Nāītya rāyāci kuli eāṁgena, ibid., 63.

page 365 note 3 te samaiṁ mahajara śrībiṁbāpāsūna yāvat Ḍapharakhānā jarmāīta (read: Navāīta) Mābimāsa rājya adhikāri, ibid., 68.

page 365 note 4 p. 61.

page 365 note 5 Journal of the Oriental Institute, M.S. University of Baroda, v, 1, 1955, 103–4.Google Scholar