respectively. While more than three-fourth of the marginal farmers have Hinduism
as their household religion, cent percent of the sample large farmers are Christians. Number of small farmer households belonging to the above two religions are found to be more or less equal. A Community wise split up of the sample farmers shows that more than half
of them are Syrian Christians, one-third are Ezhavas and 7.78 percent are Nairs. Percentage of Scheduled Caste farmers is found to be 6.67 and all them are marginal farmers. They had obtained paddy lands through the redistribution of surplus lands. As the Christian converts from Scheduled Castes
had lost their caste identity, they were not given any portion of the redistributed surplus paddy lands. Community wise distribution of sample households is given in table 3.6
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