Social Status
In their caste-professional status, the Ambalavasis are generally categorized as Antaralas, from their occupying an intermediate position between the Brahmins of Kerala on the one hand, and the Sudra on the other.
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“... to most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable—else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?”
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