Tharavad () is a Malayalam word for ancestral home, usually used by Namboothiri,Nair Ambalavasi,Ezhava and Thiyyar castes as the common house for the joint family system practised by people of Kerala, India. Tharavadi was also related to the matrilineal system of Marumakkathayam or Makkathayam (Patrilineal lineage) in Kerala which is similar to gotras. Hermann Gundert in his Malayalam—English dictionary published in 1872, lists tharavad as "ancestral residence of land-owners" and also as "a house, chiefly of noblemen". Contemporary usage of the word is more generic to all social classes.

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Tharavad is a Malayalam word for ancestral home, usually used by Namboothiri, Nair Ambalavasi, Ezhava and Thiyyar castes as the common house for the joint family system practised by people of Kerala, India. Tharavadi was also related to the matrilineal system of Marumakkathayam or Makkathayam (Patrilineal lineage) in Kerala, which is similar to gotras. Hermana Gundert in her Malayalam—English dictionary published in 1872, lists tharavad as an “ancestral residence of land-owners,” and also as “a house, chiefly of noblemen.” Contemporary usage of the word is more generic to all social classes.

References

Category: Kerala society
Category: Culture of Kerala
Category: Social history of Kerala
