Talk:Nassuvan

Maruthuvar community history

Please write your opinion and or whatever you know about this community. We have history from olders as story what they know. Would be very much wish to know any other history by records and proofs. Villapraba (talk) 08:36, 15 April 2017 (UTC)

Wrong article? - Sitush (talk) 16:41, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Notability

I have just searched Google, JSTOR, Project Muse, Oxford Journals, Cambridge Journals, Cambridge University Press, Emwrald Insight, Sage Journals, and Oxford Scholarship Online. The only non-mirror etc mention of this caste is a brief piece by the Anthropological Survey of India in their (reliable) "national" series of The People of India and an entry in their (unreliable) "states" series of the same.

I do not currently have access to journals published by Taylor & Francis but this does not look good. RegentsPark, I see you reverted here recently - what do you think about a redirect to Ambattar? - Sitush (talk) 16:41, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Clarification: Ambattar because when I use a different spelling I get stuff like this. - Sitush (talk) 17:03, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

I merely reverted stuff in non-Latin script. But, looking through JSTOR, I see one independent reference to Nasuvan (one s, not two). Nasuvan as barbers and various census statistics (though listed as Do. Nasuvan, not sure what the Do. signifies) (example). Are Ambattar also barbers? --regentspark (comment) 19:05, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Yes, switching to a single "s" helps but then seems to show synonymity with Ambattar/Ambattan. And, yes, Ambattar = barbers but also physicians (this was common in Europe, too, and is often given as an explanation for a barber's shop sign being a red-and-white pole, representing bandage of a bleeding wound). Do. is an archaism in the UK for ditto, if that helps? - Sitush (talk) 19:58, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

I guess we can combine them as being the same. Also all the other ones mentioned in the black coffee source. --regentspark (comment) 20:37, 19 June 2020 (UTC)