Tamil Brahmin
Overview of the Tamil-speaking Brahmins in India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tamil Brahmins are an ethnoreligious community of Tamil-speaking Hindu Brahmins, predominantly living in Tamil Nadu, though they number significantly in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, in addition to other regions of India. They can be broadly divided into two denominations: Iyengars, who are adherents of Sri Vaishnavism, and Iyers, who follow the Srauta and Smarta traditions.
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They also constitute nowadays an important portion of the South Indian Tamil diaspora worldwide. A tiny community of Tamil Brahmins from the Iyer caste is also historically settled in Sri Lanka, mostly from the second half of the 18th century.[1][2][3]