Origin With The Kuru
In Sri Lanka, some Karave claim Kuru - an Indo-Aryan Kshatriya tribe from northern India - ancestry, thus assimilating with the Sinhalese people.
Karavas, south of Colombo, along with all other Sinhalese communities, the Karavas are Sinhala speakers and are devoted Catholics and Buddhists with very little vestige of their former Hindu religion. With Salagama and Durave, they make a sizable number of people among the coastal Sinhalese sub group. The Karaiyars are an ancient seafaring, warrior caste native to Tamil Nadu, India to the North Eastern parts of Sri Lanka. Karave and Karaiyer are both equivalent caste groups in Sri Lanka. The name Karaiyar means "coastal men" in Tamil. They are of mostly Hindu origin.
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