APPENDIX

KNANAYA CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

APPENDIX

AN INTERVIEW ON KNANAYA COMMUNITY

Structure of the Group. The group included 80 persons: 65 males and 15 females; 45 Knanites and 35 non-Knanites, 44 religious persons and 36 lay people. 56 persons were well educated, which comprises 70% of the group. However, those who are well aware of the community are only 9, i.e., 11.25%, 81 percentages (65) of persons were having an average knowledge of it.

There were mainly three questions. The first question was, should the Knanaya Community exist? 97.5% answered positively.

To the question “Why it should exist?’ 70% stressed on the cultural aspect, 25% stressed the unity and 2.5% on other factors

The second question was whether the community can have an independent existence in the Church. This question was asked on the background of the accusations like, the community is against the spirit of the church i.e., community is against the spirit of the church i.e., it is a closed group, they do not include others into their community, are not doing missionary work, etc. While 61% opined that it has a separate existence in the church, 39% are doubtful of its existence in the church.

The third question was whether the practice of endogamy, a must. While 55% stood for endogamy, 35% was strongly opposing it. However, 10% were indifferent to it.

ANALYSIS

Before making an analysis on the results, it is important to have correct view of the participants. They include both Knanites and non Knanites, and they differ in their views in almost all issues and sometimes it is even contradictory. Only on one point that whether the community should exist, that they both agree, but to the why, they differ.

To the second question, while 93.3% of the Knanites believe that they can continue in the Catholic Church as a separate entity, 80% of the non-Knanites can not understand it. In the case of the third question also, while 91% of the Knanites supports endogamy 68% of the non-Knanites cannot think of it. In the attitude towards the first question also they differ. White Knanites project culture as the important identifying mark of the community, the non-Knanites find unity as the important factor for the existence of the community.

An important aspect is that those two persons who said that the community should not exist are Knanites, but inter married ones. The inter-married ones and their relatives take a more negative attitude to the existence of the community.

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