Inidias martial race thevar caste history in tamil youtube. The kallar, along with the maravar and agamudayar, constitute a united social caste on the basis of parallel professions, though their locations and heritages are wholly separate from one another. Later the eyinar merged with the castes kallar, maravar and agamudayar mukkulathor and vanniyar. Thevar derived from sanskrit devar means god early days kings were portrayed as. They comprise the agamudayar, kallar and maravar social groups that share a common myth of origin and claim to have once been members of various ancient south indian dynasties. I moved from tirunelveli to erode in 1992 to become reader in history at. They comprise the agamudayar, kallar and maravar social groups that share a common myth of origin and. In 1957, a dalit leader immanuel dared to defy muthuramalinga thevar and. The mukkulathor people, who are also collectively known as thevar, are native to the central and southern districts of tamil nadu, india. The kallar, along with the maravar and agamudayar, constitute a united.
According to the anthropologist zoe e headley, the three communities are the numerically dominant rural backward castes of the southern districts of tamil nadu. This chapter deals with mapping out the historical identities and how some leaders. Agamudayar, maravar, kallar and which make up this large endogamous social group. Together with the kallar, maravar, they form the thevar mukkulathor community. Epw, september 6, 1997 and in a book edited by sabyasachi bhattacharya and yagati. Kings are addressed as thevars during the chola and pandyian dynasty some constitute as vikings and warriors of tamilakkam. Agamudayar otherwise agamudaiyar, akamudayar, agamudayan are a tamil community found in the indian state of tamil nadu. It is also used by certain agamudayar and kallar clan members. Kallar kallar children with dilated earlobes, formerly a common practice regions with significant populations tamil nadu languages tamil religion folk hinduism related ethnic groups agamudayar. Kannada thevar kallar unmarried matrimony kannada thevar. Kallar, maravar and agamudayar are siblings and the descendents of the three clans chera, chola and pandian.
Yogesh mani, learning and analysing history for 10 years. Kallar the caste who makes the history of tamilnadu. The name mukkulathor alludes to the three roughly designated groups. Mukkulathor means three clans kallar, maravar and agamudayar combinedly called as thevar estimated population 1,30,00,000. Chapter ii historical background of the kallar community 0 situated principally between 7 57 1 and 11 0 10 1 of north latitude and between 77 0 30 1 and 79 0 85 1 of east longitude, madurai lies entirely within the tropics. The thevar surname is used by maravar clan members. Chapteriv construction of caste identities in digital. Writing about caste violence in southern tamil nadu leftword. The 3 groups of people who took the title for themselves are agamudaiyar, maravar and kallar.
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