::::::::Even the Portuguese and English factors  had  “armed local nair force”s along with the native rulers. That is why the 8th NPOV - "The Nairs historically served in the local armed forces" seems suitable. Inability to see even this gives me an impression that you  are trying your best not to mitigate a cognition bias using semantics as a facade - what might otherwise be percieved as a colonial POV. Present lead misrepresents the body of the article due to this colonial POV. Does the page-admin also have the same opinion as Sitush on all 8 options of NPOV ? - page-admins opinion requested.  VS