[5] my understanding is that these nabobs eventually got exiled to the anglo motherlands, since they were by local construction the eternal second class, if not plainly Paraiyar (ie shamanically, deviants from the local post-titanomachian norms)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraiyar#History]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Æsir–Vanir_War#Theories]

[tangential note: antiparallels with outcasting of entertainers in pre-war Korea]

E.g. the various outstanding cricket players of the Raj

Meanwhile can we standardize meanings of various terms — should we use the ancient values for aristocracy,hubris,Metis,techne (my preference)