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Mudaliar (alternatively spelled: Muthaliar, Mudali, Muthali) is a Tamil title and surname. [1] As title, it was historically given to high-ranking officers, administrators and their descendants during the rule of Imperial Cholas .
Thuluva Vellalar, [1] [a] also known as Agamudi Mudaliar [3] [4] or Arcot Mudaliars, [5] [6] is a caste found in northern Tamil Nadu, southern Andhra Pradesh and southern Karnataka. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] They were an elite and dominant land-owning community.
Mudaliar, also spelled as Mudaliyar, Muthaliyar, Mudali, and Mudhali, is a surname used by people belonging to Sengunthar, Thuluva Vellalar and Kondaikatti Vellalar. [1] It is derived from the honorary title Mudali meaning a person of first rank in the Tamil language, which was bestowed upon top-ranking bureaucratic officials, philanthropists, educationists, physicians, politicians and army ...
Vellalars are a landowning high ranking caste in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and parts of Sri Lanka. [1] [2] The Vellalar community adopts various titles, including Pillai, Mudaliar, and Gounder. These titles are used by different subcastes of the Vellalar, influenced by regional, social, and cultural factors. [3
The caste is divided into a number of unranked patrilineal exogamous clans called gotras. [19] In addition, the caste is composed of four hierarchically ranked endogamous units called Vakaiyaras (varieties or kindreds). The members belonging to the higher Vakaiyaras will not interdine, intermarry or accept food or water from the lower Vakaiyaras.
[1] [2] These subcastes can be identified by specific prefixes denoting a place of origin, and suffixes that honor social or regional distinctions, for example, Tondaimandalam Kondaikatti Vellala Mudaliar. [3] The titles used by the Vellalar community include Pillai, Mudaliar,Kudumban,Gounder and Chettiar. These titles are adopted by different ...
A.G. Murugesa Mudaliar: Last Mirasdar of Variyankaval, Ariyalur district. His family has hold 450 acre cultivatable land in Andimadam taluk. His family has hold 450 acre cultivatable land in Andimadam taluk.
Thondaimandala Vellalar is a high-ranking subcaste of the Vellalar caste in the state of Tamil Nadu, India who tend, to adopt the title of Mudaliar [1] and they were traditional "landlords and officials of the state class" described by the anthropologist Kathleen Gough. [2] They are a closely knit community and follow the Vegetarian diet.