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1. A Handbook for India: Madras By John Murray (Firm), Edward B. Eastwick The Nainmar or Nairs are the pure Shudras of Malabar, and all pretend to be soldiers; but they are of various ranks and professions...
2. Religion and social conflict in South Asia By Bardwell L. Smith The Nairs are generallay accepted as the martial class of Kerala, although they are accorded only a shudra status in the caste structure
3. Modernization and effeminization in India: Kerala cashew workers since 1930 By Anna Lindberg, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies The nairs were a fairly large group who, by the early twentieth century, represented almost 20 percent of the population of Travancore. Along with the brahmans, there were an influential caste, consisting of landowners and tenants who themselves owned slaves. Despite their power, however, they were regarded as Shudras by the Brahmins
4. Will I Be Killed: For Writing the Following Contents By Ahamkaari Will I Be Killed: For Writing the Following Contents By Ahamkaari If you take the southern state of andhra pradesh, tamizhnaadu and kerala, the socio-political dominant dominant caste names are — vellalas, mudaliyars, chettiyars, reddiars, kammas, naidus and nairs ---- all Shudras!.....
5. A gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore By Pharoah and Co, John Walker, Charles Walker The Nairs are of the Sudra caste and physically considered, are a fine race of men; (page 589)
6. The Development of Marriage and Kinship By C. Staniland Wake It is not improbably, however, that the relations between the Brahman and the Nairs, who are Sudras, were always what they are now.... (page 142)
7. Into India By John Keay For size and organisation, few Indian castes can compare with the the Nairs of kerala. In origin they were Sudras but traditionally found employment as soldiers in th armies of the south. (page 75)
8. East-India gazetteer, Volume 2 the next most remarkable cast are the Nairs, who although Sudras are at once the chief landed proprietors and principal military tribe of malabar. (page 180)
9. Ezhimala: the abode of the Naval Academy By Murkot Ramunny The Nairs, whom the Brahmins had designated Sudras to fit into their concept of 'Chathuvarnyam', also continued the matrlineal tradition. This suited the Nambuthiri Brahmins. Only their eldest son could marry from their own community. the rest of the family had to find wives among the Sudra community, Nairs. (page 19)
10. Rise of Portuguese Power in India By R.S. Whiteway The ruling and military race was the Nair caste, who like all inhabitants of Malabar except the Brahmans, ranked socially as sudras, the lowest of the four great divisions, because they were converts and not Hindus born. (page 11)