Do Tamil Brahmins [Iyers and Iyengars] consider themselves to be Aryans or Dravidians?

 

1. Iyers and Iyengars are caste names, whereas Aryans and Dravidians are race names. The former is relavant in day to day usage whereas the latter is relavant for researchers who work on races and confuse the mass with their own theories..
2. Iyers and Iyengars are Tamilians.
3. The division as found in North, like Samvedi, Dubey, Trivedi, Chaturvedi, Pandey, Mishra do not exist in Tamil Nadu.
4. Iyers follow advaitam and Iyengars follow vishistatvaitam.
5. Once Kanchi was epitome of learning on the lines of Nalanda and Takshila and Sanskrit was also a School of Study. Intelligents, they learned this scientific language so introduced to some of their children. They are neither good at it like North Indians and their Vedic Rituals are as well inferior to North Indian Brahmins as the language is still foreign to them.
6. They are respectable communities in Tamil Nadu. Both the names originate from the same respectable tamil root - “Ayya”
7. Later years saw few Iyers migrated to Karnataka(Mysore) and Kerala (Palakkad).
8. Iyengars are also migrated to Karnataka, called Hebbar Iyengars and Mandyam Iyengars. They are grand.
9. Within Iyengars, there is a division - Vadakalai and Thenkalai.
10. Iyers and Iyengars Tamil are much superior than Brahims of rest of India in intellect.
11. Jamshad Chethirakath, a Keralite is known by stage name Arya and Rahul Dravid is a Marathi. Tamils are also crazy in keeping their names as Stalin, Bose etc