Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Giraavaru people (Tivaru people) are the indigenous people of Giraavaru Island, part of the Maldives. Of Dravidian origin, and the earliest island community of the Maldives, their presence predates Buddhism and the arrival of a Northern kingly dynasty in the archipelago. Their ancestors were Tamils from the Malabar Coast (modern Kerala). Their former status was rather like the toddy-tapping lower castes of Kerala and other Divehis regarded them as impure. They themselves averred that their customs and morals were purer then those of other Divehis.The Giraavarus were isolated and thus an endogamous society with a relatively low population for more than a millennia. As a result, the population showed a number of heritable genetic disorders when they were forcibly assimilated with a population in the forties."@en }
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- Giraavaru_people abstract "The Giraavaru people (Tivaru people) are the indigenous people of Giraavaru Island, part of the Maldives. Of Dravidian origin, and the earliest island community of the Maldives, their presence predates Buddhism and the arrival of a Northern kingly dynasty in the archipelago. Their ancestors were Tamils from the Malabar Coast (modern Kerala). Their former status was rather like the toddy-tapping lower castes of Kerala and other Divehis regarded them as impure. They themselves averred that their customs and morals were purer then those of other Divehis.The Giraavarus were isolated and thus an endogamous society with a relatively low population for more than a millennia. As a result, the population showed a number of heritable genetic disorders when they were forcibly assimilated with a population in the forties.".