Castes and Tribes of Southern India/Enangan

by Edgar Thurston

Enangan. — Enangan or Inangan is defined by Mr. K. Kannan Nayar ‡^[1] as "a member of an Inangu, this being a community of a number of tarwads, the members of which may interdine or intermarry, and are bound to assist one another, if required, in the performance of certain social and religious rites." It is noted, in the Gazetteer of Malabar, that "an Enangan or Inangan is a man of the same caste and sub-division or marriage groups. It is usually translated kinsman, but is at once wider and narrower in its connotation. My Enangans are all who can marry the same people that I can. An EnangattI is a female member of an Enangan's family."

1. ‡ Malabar Quarterly Review, VII, 3, 1908.