Agraharam
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In India, an Agraharam is a name used to refer to streets or villages in which only brahmins reside. In the past such villages were gifted to brahmins by the king. Such agraharams were common during pre-independence India. But in later times, when such community-based villages were disallowed by the government and when the brahmins started migrating to cities and towns leaving their native places and their traditional occupations, such villages have become a rarity. Many agraharams today wear a deserted look, with nobody living in them.
but this is not completely true. i myself had grandparents living in agraharam. ours was a agraharam called manathattai agraharam of kulitalai taluk and karur district.
the agraharam was quite vibrant. but now most of the young men have migrated to cities in search of new opportunities
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