Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
Community in Palakkad district of Kerala, south India
The Moothan are a community in Palakkad district of Kerala, India, who primarily engage in trade. They believe themselves to have migrated to Kerala in the 10th century with goddess Kannaki and they live in Majorly in Katampazhipuram, Sreekrishnapuram, Mannarkad and Ottapalam and refer to themselves as Arya Vaishya.
References
T. Madhava Menon; International School of Dravidian Linguistics (2002). A handbook of Kerala. International School of Dravidian Linguistics. p. 766. ISBN978-81-85692-31-9. Retrieved 13 May 2013.