Chekavar

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Chekavar (also Chekava, Chekavan, Chevakan, Chon) are a caste with origins in southern India, including Sri Lanka, Kerala and some parts of Tamil Nadu. They are believed to be the founding fathers who as practitioners systemically developed the martial art of Kalarippayattu with the use of weapons thousands of years before the arrival of Aryans and Chathurvarnya to South India.