nambutiris

Updated: May 16, 2025

In food, drink and pleasures, the Nambutiris are almost ascetics: their rectitude, punctiliousness and dignity still command exaggerated respect. But they seem unproductive and petrified, even in such matters as literature and scholarship, and their inability to adapt themselves to changing conditions threatens them with impoverishment and deterioration.

Sir Charles Eliot - Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1