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A mutual friend made the introductions between the Nairs and the Maccionis, and Le Cirque Delhi was born.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2011

Equally implacably, he continued to enforce a law tightening his government's control of private schools�a measure that had driven Kerala's numerous Roman Catholics and Hindu Nairs to league against him.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may temporarily supersede these as in Australia; or it may take their place, as among the Nairs.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge

Nairs, Hindus of high caste, claiming to rank next the Brahmans, who lived on the Malabar coast of India; among them polyandry prevailed, and the royal power descended through the female line.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Any other arrangement would have seemed merely preposterous to the Nairs; and perhaps if any exclusion had been contemplated it would have been of men rather than of women.

From Appearances Being Notes of Travel by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)