Eradi is a Samanthan Nair clan of Kshatriya

Kshatriya

*For the Bollywood film of the same name see Kshatriya Kshatriya or Kashtriya, meaning warrior, is one of the four varnas in Hinduism...

 origin, coming from the Indian state of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. The word is derived from the place name Eranad in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. The "Samoothiri" (Zamorin) comes from this Eradi subcaste, now assimilated to Nair

Nair

Nair , also known as Nayar , refers to "not a unitary group but a named category of castes", which historically embody several castes and many subdivisions, not all of whom bore the Nair title. These people historically live in the present-day Indian state of Kerala...

, the major upper caste of state of Kerala. Historically the Eradis numbered only a few hundreds of members. The 1891 Census of India

1891 Census of India

The 1891 Indian Census was conducted by the British and covered India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma. The ethnic distribution was as follows:...

 reported their population at just 356, constituting less than 0.04% of the total Nair population.

See also

• Samanthan
  Samanthan
  Samantan Nair or more commonly Samantan was a generic term applied to dignify a collection of Kshatriya sub-clans among the ruling elite and feudal estate owners of Kerala belonging to the Nayar race.-Historical background:Kerala was under the second Chera Empire approximately during 800...
  
  
• Nair Subcastes
• Justice V. Balakrishna Eradi
• Jati system of Kerala
• Nair
  Nair
  Nair , also known as Nayar , refers to "not a unitary group but a named category of castes", which historically embody several castes and many subdivisions, not all of whom bore the Nair title. These people historically live in the present-day Indian state of Kerala...
  
  
• Menoky
  Menoky
  Menoky is a Nair subcaste in the Indian state of Kerala. The Menoky are one of 14 "high caste" Nayar , and historically served as administrators of baronies and supervising accounts in temples....