Its great to see the histories of NADARs....thank the admin whole heartedly...still many personalities r left out...happy if it s added...Valga Nadar kulam,Valarga en Nadar Kula makkal...

sir, the records are saying ancient writer is belongs to nadar? How they bring the detail till now? 60000 years before records are genuine? Tell me nadar complete details journals

Dear Author, Iam a Nadar of Kanyakumari and reached ur site during my research. Of late Iam trying to find out my family history. For the past 9 generations we are living near Padmanapapuram Palace. The family legend has it that our forefather was a Thalapathi in Koon Pandians Palace(11th century). When Koon Pandian converted to Hinduism from Jain faith he asked all his courtiers to convert.Further he commanded to give his sister in marriage (Thaithuva vivakam) to the brahmin who performed the cleansing puja against her wish. She committed suicide instead of converting. This made the thalapathi to run away from madurai and settled down in travancore and was helped by the nasranis in thiruvancode ( place of the oldest church) and eventually converted into christian as jain preachings coincided with christian preachings. Now I want somebody to throw more light on 11th century social setup, what happened when there was a change in religion of a king.

Hello sir, I am belonging to seenanthoppu, RaoBahadur Ratnasamy Nadar founder of nadar mahajana sangam also belonging to our family.. iyvar raja were ruled south side at 16th century, only son of the elder king is veera sekara chozhan, during a war the king ordered his commander to take the veera sekara chozhan to tiruvandrum region under the king ruled in tiruvandrum, seenan nadar is the one who belong to the veera sekara chozhan nadar.. I need the history between veera sekara chozhan and seenan nadar.. if u know any of the history please share with me sir..

Dear All, The birth of Tamil language is equal to birth of nadar(Kumari continent) Nadars means Pandian and Tamil. During pandian period only no caste system. A formed community devar is Cholas. During manu needhi chozhan period caste system was present. Tamil birth period (tamil siddhar Lord Muruga nadan period) is equal to English (or christianity) birth period. All tamil grammar authors belongs to nadar community. Ilangovadigal and Kannagi belongs to nadar community. Korkai is the captial of pandian. For commerical growth, dravida hindi and sanskrit mixers should not use nadar community and tamil language. All southern districts in tamil nadu belongs to Tamilar inam. I request all northern districts of tamil nadu name yourself as tamilar instead of dravidars. Dravida naadu endru kettavargalukku Kaathil tamil naadu endru peyarai maatra vendum endru sandai pottu sonnavargal nadargal. The chief minister of Tamil is nadar. Without nature no tamil and nadar & without tamil and nadar no nature. Nature Tamil and Nadar are inter linked. 2 lines and 4 lines munnar vaazhnthavargal nadargal. Pillaimaar communitya serntha aiyan thiruvalluvar and avvaiyaar nadargalukku miga nerukkamaanavargal. Itha iruvarin tamil ilakkiyathai protect seithavargal nadargal. Tamil enpathu pandianin mozhi and Tamilar enpathu pandianin inam. Regards, Govindaraj DuraiPandian.

In the 19th century the British missionaries started promoting Sanskrit language of Namubdiris The Grantha Bhasa written with Tigalari script. The British promoted the Grantha Bhasa as Malayalam while abandoning the Malayanma. In 1815 the British started teaching the Syrian Christian priests Grantha Bhasa of Nambudiris at Church Mission Society Kottayam. In 1844 the British started a Sanskrit college under Father Chavara Kuriakose Achan. No Kerala Christian books written with modern Malayalam script or language can be found prior to the British established their rule in the 19th century. However the Europeans did not succed in their efforts to replace Malayanma completely. In the latter period the Malayanma words got integrated to Grantha Bhasa and a Grantha Malayalam written with Tigalari (Tulu) script was made the standard in the 19th century. Destruction of Malayanma also destroyed most of the traditional Malayanma books in Kerala. Actually Kerala has only few books written by Nambudiris in the 17th century onwards which are basically Sanskrit books with eighty percent Sanskrit and 20 percent Malayalam. Some books from Malayanma era do exist. Many of the Palm leaf manuscripts of Kerala display a language which closely resemble Tamil. Ravikuttipilla Por a book written in 17th century at Travancore virtually indistinquishable from Tamil. Vadakkan Pattukal and few other Kerala folk songs don’t use Sanskrit as Malayanma used no Sanskrit. Now many of the Dravidian Malayalis never realize how the British duped them by teaching them Grantha Bhasa written with Tulu Script. But Nadan Malayalam hardly uses Sanskrit and its coming back once again. Strangely Malayalam is much more closer to Sangham Tamil than modern Tamil. Thus all the words in Thirukural can be found in Malayalam not in Tamil despite the fact it is Sancritised.

very nice effort.sir please tell how shanars kings to palm climbers in the history.nadar and shanar is same .how we got this community name

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Hello... I am from Tenkasi..I just want to read some historical book about nadars. Suggest me one recent book and where I purchase it?

Hi sir...tnx for ur hardwork for our nadar family..I have a question sir...is aggarwal is our nadar

Any one know about narayanar pattam ,my grandfather said his forefathers got narayanar pattam

sir i have one doubt nadar caste where is come from and any kings have in nadar caste

Are the Aadhithan Family of Thiruchendur descendents of Pandyas? I have read that this family has more than 500 years of history in connection with the Thiruchendur Murugan Temple.

Nadars are great

Hello sir .Chola mannarkalum nadarthana.

i am nadar manikandan i nadar history like

m very proud of this site and the viewers comments authors reply, Ilike it . am very proud of the member from this community . I wants to know more nadar personalities

Do you have any information about Boothathan chempakaperumal nadir? My ancestors say that he was some kind of a rich man who even had influence on the king of Travancore. Even now his cemetery has the sign of Travancore state symbol.

this message is more useful to know about the history of nadars and ihope again tamil community will get a great leader to lead the tamils against tyranny.

Sir, There is a place in Kanyakumari called Ananthanadarkudieruppu. Kindly let me know the history of the place.

Hello, I have heard my dad saying that we bunts from Tulu Nadu are connected to the Nadars of Tamil Nadu...any thing on this..?

i want to know more accurate evidence about anthapadmanabhan nadar ,, the senapathy of travancore,,, i searched but there is no information about him? why ,, but one of the malayalam newspaper published matters about him and his grave yard .. so i belive it is true ,, but i want to know more about him,, any one can share me the true details of him not exagerated things plz

Thanks for the Information about the Nadar History............

Nadars are the masters of ancient martial art varmakalai. visit www.varmakalailive.com

can u suggest a book of malayalam 2 read abt nadars history and i have dout that sri narayana guru is a nadar or not?????

Could you compare the population of nadar with thevar?

Please note that Nadar Community really a wonderful group of people having well pleased manners. Do you thithey are Nadar people and Ezhava people are one and same and if so what are the differences and positions in the socity>

Music Director Harris Jayaraj is a real hit person from Nadar community. I know a Nadar friend who says Harris Jayaraj is his relative, his family is from Tirunelveli. Also as I heard his sister is married to son of V.G.P Pannerselvam who is also a Nadar.

PLEASE REFER TO YOUR COMMENT OF PORAYAR NADAR. THE FOUNDER OF NADAR MAHAJANA SANGAM IS RAO BAHADHUR T.RATHINASAMY NADAR OF PORAIYAR. HIS GREAT GRANDFATHER PERUMALSAMY NADAR MIGRATED TO PORAIYAR DUE TO LAND DISPUTE WITH HIS BROTHERS AFTER THE DEMISE OF HIS FATHER IN SEENANTHOPPU, A VILLAGE NEAR TIRUCHENDUR. PLEASE REFER TO www.thenadarsofporaiyar for further details. I BELONG TO SEENANTHOPPU FAMILY.

The film Celluloid released at February 2012 is based on the life story of JC Daniel Nadar who is considered as the father of Malayalam Cinema.The film was directed by Kamal and the hero was Sukumarans son Pritivi Raj. Sukumaran like Tikkurissi had been a favorite actor of many Travancore people. Daniel was also credited for the establishment of first Kerala studio, Travancore National Studio at Pattom. JC Daniel who directed the first Malayalam silent movie Vigatha Kumaran (Lost Child)was the son of a Doctor (Apothecary) who practised at Trivandrum Government Hospital at the end of 19th century.JC Daniels father was trained at England and was born at Changanacherry. JC Daniel himself was born at Neyyatinkara or Augustheeswaram in 1897.The film Vigatha Kumaran was shot at a cost of four lakh rupees an enormous amount in that era. Vigatha Kumaran was shot at Trivandrum and Colombo, Sri Lanka.Vigatha Kumaran ran into trouble on its first screening at Trivandrum. When the Hero of the film (JC Daniel) was attempting to touch the flower on the head of the Heroine, in the film, the angry crowd stopped the film from being screened at Capitol Theatre Trivandrum in 1928. JC Daniel studied Dental surgery and was practising at Palayamkotta. JC Daniel died a dejected man in 1975.Before his death old JC Daniel who had lost all his wealth sought the help of Kerala Government.Chelankadu Gopalakrishnan had stated in his book that K.Karunakaran who was cultural affairs minister in that time refused to acknowledge that Vigatha Kumaran was the first Malayalam film. Malayattor Ramakrishna Iyer who was the Secretary at the Cultural affairs ministry allegedly favoured a film directed by TR Sundharam a Tamil Brahmin who had established the Modern Theatre at Salem. Balan the film directed by TR Sundaram and released at 1938 was a classic as well as it was the first talking film. Malayattoor Ramakrishnan had been a much acclaimed writer who wrote many books including Ponni which depicted the life style of Attappady tribals. Karunakaran and Malayattoor also refused to issue the the old age pension of 100 Rs per month awarded to the artists. The reason given was JC Daniel was not a Malayalee and not a resident of Kerala.(All the Nadars including Malayali Nadars have Tamil roots). JC Daniel was advised to get help from Tamil Nadu Government for directing the first Malayalam film. In 1963-64 when the Kerala Chamber of Commerce celebrated the Silver Jubilee of Malayalam Cinema starting from Balan (1938) they felicitated TR Sundharam despite protests from Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan. Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan who was a board member in the cultural affairs ministry in that era had suggested JC Daniel should have been given his due credit. Chelangatt Gopalakrishan who hails from Cherthala in the Alappuzha District wrote a book J C Danielinte Jeevitha Katha in which he categorically described the events which led to the denial of the Status of Father of Malayalam cinema.JC Daniel died unsung after protracted illness at 1975. Except for the persistent efforts of Chelangatt Gopalakrishnan Kerala would have forgotten JC Daniel. Chelangatt discovered that the first film had been destroyed completely when JC Daniels second son playfuly had burned away all the film rolls. JC Daniel was honoured posthumously when the Kerala Government instituted JC Daniel award in 1992. Ironically Mr.K.Karunakaran was the Chief minister in that period. The first actress of Malayalam Cinema was PK Rosie alias Rajamma. Rajamma fearing reprisals from Nairs fled Trivandrum and lived at Vadassery Nagercoil and Tiruchirappally. She had been a Christian but reconverted to Hinduism and adopted her former name Rajamma. The lorry driver Kesava Pillai who resqued her from the angry crowd had had married her. Rosy alias Rajamma had learned weaving, an occupation gave her a living. She was never acknowledged as the first Malayali film heroine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnE8Ip37LPw Celluloid was screened in February 2012 and met with moderate success.It has been selected as the Best Malayalam picture in the 60th National film awards for the year 2012.

you have quoted "Valamkaimaalai" as reference for nadar history. how did you get that palm leaf text is any scanned copy avaliable?

Nadar community Genetic analysis reveal some commonalities with Indo-China (APAC) regions, it has to be studied in detail

WE HAVE TO COLLECT THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCES WHICH WILL BE SAFEGUARDED BY US IN OUR MUSEUM. WE HAVE TO COLLECT THE DETAILS WHICH WILL BE REGISTERED PROPERLY AND RECORDED.THEN ONLY WE WILL SHOW OUR COMMUNITY PRIDE.

I read the history of Nadars, liked it, very informative ! But did not read viewers view and replies so do not know if someone has already asked the very question I am asking here and if you have already replied to it; are the Pallavas a part of / related to Nadars or are they aryans or aryan instigated other people ? Nothing was mentioned about the pallava kings/kingdom though north indian kingdoms were mentioned in the history here. By asking this question I want to know the truth rather than to demean anyone so please excuse me if I am asking anything wrong. Thank you.

hi, really it is amazing.But i need more details regarding our ancestors and what is our culture in old days and how we lived in old days and how we are now. but nowadays we are dominated by other peoples as we are backward class and like manythings. even today still in villages we are like slaves.

PAANDIMAADHEVI NOVEL POINTS OUT PLACES LIKE PODHIGAIMALAI, MUNCHIRAI, THOLKAAPIAR,NAANKU KOOTRANKAL,PAHRULIYAARU, ETC. REFER WIKIPEDIA/YOUTUBE FOR MAPS/VIDEOS OF LEMURIA (THENKUMARI)KANDAM. THE FACT IS THAT PRESENT KANYAKUMARI IS JUST THE REMNANT OF ANCIENT (PRE-SANGAM PERIOD)KUMARIKKANDAM

Is there any Pandyan blooded nadars living in Trivandrum,Kerala?

THANKS FOR KNOW MY NADAR HISTORY

really all info s are good...try to write in Tamil. i already share this page to our nadars Facebook.great job...my wishes..

Hi, Sir I need some info regarding that in Nadar community was there any king called Thavasi Nadar. Please confirm and let us know. About this site it is very beautiful,simple. And from this site I came to know many thinks about the Nadars from Origin. Please keep this good work for our up coming generation. Thank you!!!

nice info. for nadar!!! but i have one doubt thever also called as mukullathor! they are telling mukullathor means chera,chola and pandyas! or they telling wrong info.!!??

does something called Lemuria continent existed??? i hears that it was the ancient pandyan kingdom and was ruled by nadan pandyans.... தென்பாலி நாடன் ராகன் http://www.yarl.com/forum3/index.php?showtopic=93857 http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=234935816565952&set=o.141482842472&type=1

This Site is so helpful, not only to nadars, but also for anyone who likes history. To add about Porayar Nadar Family, T. Gurusamy Nadar of Porayar (Brother of Rao Bhadur T. Ratnasamy Nadar, Founder of Nadar Mahajana Sangam) held the famous "Zamindari rights" in an auction, around 1919 and became the "Zamindar of Ariyalur". But he died in the following year!

plz explain what SHAANAR MEANS

Try to find the novel PAANDIMAADEVI written by Na.PARTHASRATHY which contains a story of THENPAANDI kings era in Kumarikkandam

Nadar makkal ottumai yaga erukkanum

Sir, My father used to tell us that one of his great grand mothers saved the life of Marthanda Varma, Maharaja of Kalkulam [Thiruvithankoor] when he was running for his life from his enemies Ettu Veetu Pillaimar. That old lady covered the young boy with dry leaves, she had collected and showed the enemies a wrong direction. Later when he became the King of Thiruvithaankoor he has granted some acres of land in Chalian Vilai,near Thoduvetty [Marthandam] as his gift.But I do not find any official record to prove this. Another story or history was about the refusal of my Nadar ancestors to give their girl as bride for the same Maharaja. Hence Nadars used to sing:Naadaalum Rajan aanaalum Nadaalvaan penn tharamaattom! The moral I learnt from my father was: SERVE THE KING/NATION, BUT WITH DIGNITY.

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ENNTHAPADI ENKKAL ANAVORUDUAIYA SAMMATHI SASANAM. BADRAKALI AMMAN, EENATHI NAYANAR THIRUCHITTRAMBALAM.

.............. my family god is sri karkuvel ayyanar... he lived in 17th century, in his history he is also a "raja" at that period...... please collect corrct details about him and add his name in nadars history ...........

some what better to argue, now a days we can find the name of shanar,sanar,sandror,moopan,gramani, nadan, in siberian iland one group of people living tradition of dravidian heierchy, they are following ritual of dravidian culture. what you say about them. In argentaina, brazil some group of people following the basic traditional culture of making madhu, alchokal from the different spices of agricultural fruits,herebals, froweres. what you can say about them.

Saint Thomas in India - A Critical View There is some truth in the Nadars involvement in the formation of Syriac Chrisitanity. 1) The Portuguese initially allegedly attempted to instal a Villavar ruler against the Cochin king in the 1500s. This is the Villarvattom ruler later converted to Christianity and assimilated by the Portuguese-Mestizo-Syriac Christianity.2)Vallikada Panickars(who survive in Kavana Vazhakkulam near Moovattupuzha and chengamanadu) and Maranadu Panickars (Kundara) Quilon could be Nadars but mixed with the Portuguese in the later days 3)Chinnathambi Annavi the Shakspeare of the Portuguese era is believed to have migrated from Southern Travancore who composed various Chavittu Nadakams in Tamil ( Karalman Geevarghese and Jesus stories). 4)Nadars were about 8.4 percent in the 1830 census. In the 1930 census they had shrunk to 3.2 percent. This is because of their migration to Marthoma Christianity and Latin Catholicism in the 19th century.

PLEASE CONSIDER AND THE NADAR VARALARU WRITTEN BY DR. KESHAVA MOORTHY,PERUMAL ILLAM, FRONT PAGE WRITTEN BY LAWYER P. RJAMANICKAM, GURUNATHAN STREET, KARUR.

KINDLY REFER THE KONGU NADAR VARALARU WRITTEN BY PULAVAR SHANMUGHA NADAR NAGARGOIL, HE IS VISITED THE KONGU REGEION AND SEEN SOME OF COPPER PLATES AVAILABLE AT THIRUCHENGODU SANTRORKULA NADAR MANDAPAM. IN YOUR RESEARCH KINDLY COLLECT AND DISPLAY THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE KONGU NADAR. DIFFERENCITATE THE KONGU VELLALA( KONGU VELIR).

Dear Sir Thanks for your valuable information, No mater whether we divided in Name, Language or Province but we all stays united in our Blood as Nadar Blood, Could you please provide some monthly magazines so that our family members also get to know more about our cast?

I am christian Nadar basically from Trinelveli ( alangakulam),please suggest some Tamil Book for Nadar History

nadar history is amazeing iam very proud

history of nadars...very useful and rare source of information...my compliments for putting up such a great work...

Simply superb! Proud to be a nadar. Sadly these days there is a lot of mixed matches and disintegration in the community. Women of this community ought to wake up like the Pandyan queens.

Continuation of Feb 2011 St.Thomas In the Tamil Sangham Period there was no Christianity of Namboothiris in the ancient Tamil Nadu and Kerala. During the reign of Imayavaramban Neduncheralathan in the fourth century AD all the kings upto Himalayas submitted to him according to poet Kannanar in Pathittupatthu. Nar Mudi Cheral was the Crown Prince of Neducheralathan. A new kingdom called Kadamba kingdom was established by a North Indian Brahmin called Mayura Sharma around 340 AD at Banavasi in Karnataka. Mayura Sharma renamed himself as Mayura Varma. This Kadamba King Mayura Varma facing threat from the powerful Chera Villavar Kings brought a group of Naga Slaves from Ahichatra in the Uttar Panchala (Uttarkhand) in the Indo Nepalese border. The Nagas slaves brought to south India, Banavasi under the leadership of Brahmins. These Nagas were not allowed to marry or have families. So Matriarchy existed among them. Thus the Brahmins from Ahichatra were latter called Tulu Brahmins. When some of the Tulu Brahmins came to work in the Chera temples in the 8th century the formed the Namboothiri community (There is absolutely there is no evidence that Namboothiris had any role in the adminstration in the Later Chera kingdom as claimed by them). The Nagas of Banavasi were called Bantaru or Bunts (Bunta in Sanskrit means Bonded Slaves).With the help of the Bantas Kadambas continued to be the worst enemies of the ancient Chera Villavar kingdoms.Karnatakas Bunts and Keralas Nairs evolve from these Bantaru of Tulunadu. Infact Nayara Menava Maraalu Kuruba are Bunt surnames.Because of their Nepalese origin they display a fair complexion and with yellowish tinge and slight Mongoloid features.Newars of Nepal could be related to them. From these Buntas Karnatakas Bunts evolve. In the laterdays the Bantaru and Brahmins moved to south to the Tulu Pandyan kingdom ruled by Nadalvar (Nadava). When some of these Tulu Bunts invaded and occupied the Northern most areas of Kerala the Ezhimala (Kannur) after the fall of the Second Chera kingdom in 1100 AD the Bunt culture of Karnataka with Tulu roots came to Kerala. These kings of Ezhimala called themselves Mooshika Vamsham (Sanskritised Ezhimala Rat country). Kolathiris the rulers of Kannur were among the early Naga rulers with roots Ahichatra and Nepal.They practised Matriarchy. After the invasion of Malik Kafur in 1309 AD all the Tamil Kingdoms were defeated and destroyed and Kerala was given to the Tulu Bunt/Nairs. Kolathiri became their supreme leader. This is because the Nagas of south India the the Bunt/Nairs and Naickers beccame the lords of South India while the true Dravidians of South were suppressed after the invasion of Malik Kafur in 1309. After 1314 all the Kerala came under the Naga rule and the ruling dynasties practised Matriarchy. Thus the Bunts and Namboothiris were not related the Dravidian Tamils of ancient Sangham era Kerala and did not exist in that period. When the Portuguese came the country was in the hands of Nairs and Namboothiris. Before Portuguese arrival only few thousand Persian Christians who followed Nestorianism under the Eastern Orthodox church speaking middle eastern Pahlavi Kufic (Palestinian) and Hebrew. Tharisappalli Sasanam issued by the king Ay king Ayyandikal Thiruvadikal was the first ever Dravidian document mentioning Persian Christians in Kerala. In these Plates Persian Mar Sapir Easo and his friends had signed in three languages Pahlavi (Persian) Kufic(Palestinian) and Hebrew. When the Portuguese soldiers came in the 1498 AD they formed a powerful Christian community in Kerala by marrying and keeping mistresses.The Nestorians had merged with these Portuguese. Only Catholics existed between 1498 to 1660 when the Portuguese left. The Portuguese mixed people display fair colour and Mulatto features. The Portuguese used St.Thomas legend to extend their power. According to them Saint Thomas visited Bombay Kalayan Cochin and Madras where they had established forts. The Portuguese mixed Christians of Kerala were given a preeminent position in the Cochin kingdom.Because of the Portugese Royal couple favoured the formation of a Mulatto community in India.Royal titles and money were given to the Portuguese who had and Indian family. Within 100 years the Christian population in Kerala exploded. Portuguese play a major role in the establishment of fair Christianity in Kerala. (Some Dravidian communities whom the Portuguese converted remained dark because they did not have Portuguese blood) The Portuguese soldiers married women from all over Asia. Cochin and nearby Kottayam and Thrissur and Quilon remained their strongholds. After Portuguese left in 1660s Protestant Dutch came. The Syrian-Portuguese Catholics who could not accept Protestant religeon sent emissaries to various European Ministries. Pope who responded sent a Bishop to establish the Syro-Malabar sect in 1662. The rest wanted to join the Syrian religeon but not the earlier Nestorian sect but a New European sect. Thus Syro-Malankara sect was formed under the tutelage of Antioch under the Oriental Orthodox Christianity at 1665 AD. None of the Sangham literature will confirm the existence of Christianity in the ancient Tamilakam. Thiruvithankode Church was founded when the British established estates in int 19th century.You can see the architecture. Is there anything ancient there ? Wherever rubber or pepper is there Syrian Christians will claim that St.Thomas had visited that place (meaning=It belongs to them) None of the Sangam Literature or any other old documents confirm the existence of such a church or Christianity in in ancient Dravidian country. Christianity was unknown to Tamils until the European Missionaries came in the 14th century.

Dear Sir, I have been seeing your website for the last six months. It gives wonderful information on Nadars. In the traditional historical writings there are many black holes. what are they? why have they created like that? here I am pointing out the our fore historians only...we don't tell only our political history, we don't accept anything as it is regards our community, something may have fabricated by someone else. so what are the yardstick we have to measure our society's works. every where nadars have been developed by kamaraj, soundharapandian, marshal nesmani, ayyaa vaikundar like that voices we can hear. That only not enough to our society. Our way is very long...what is that? really we have been standing in this land lost our culture with the effect of sanskritization process. Let us think like what was our culture? what is our culture? where are we now? as a politically today we have been slaved by our party politics. Do we have any good party supporters? do we have any real voice raiser in the assembly or parliament behalf our community? today we are being exploited by the electoral politics. Dear friends think it once today where we are...don't compromise until our you die....

Gud info try to include info about the nadars of elaayirampannai....my grand father suryaraj nadar B.A.B.L was the joint com. HR bnd CE tamilnadu and was a grdeat lawyer who fought for natrajar statue a case given den in london..... sry fr the splng mistakes coz x my phmone dsnt ajlw me to erase.......

Why is Thever Caste added to List Of Forward Castes in Tamil Nadu and Why is Nadar Caste added to List Of Backward Castes in Tamilnadu.

Usefull then i like it

The Villavar - Nadalvar Kingodm of ancient South India included most of the four states and also the present day Madhyapradesh. The Villavar people three land tribes. The Villavar,Vanavar and Malayar and a sea going Meenavar tribe (not the present day). Pandya Kingdom could be as old as 10000 to 12000 years old. The first Tamil Sangham lasted for 4300 Years, the Second for about 3700 years and the last one lasted for about 1850 years. Most of the European researchers and their Aryan assistants from Karnataka and Madras tried to reduce the antiquity of the Pandyan Kingdom to just to 2000 years. The Early Pandyan kingdom had Hill (twin hills) to represent the Malayar people. The Pandyan king was called Malayathuvaja Pandyan. Malai = Hill Thwaja = Flag (Sanskrit). Similarly the Pandyan king was also called Saranghadwajan indicating his Villavar origins. Sarangha = Bow (Vil) and Dhawaja = Flag. Malayathwaja Pandyan and Sarangha Dwaja Pandyan are mentioned in the Mahabharatha. The ancient Pandyan kingdom was atleast having Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Southern Karnataka and Sri Lanka during the Mahabharatha era (1500 BC).Nadar or Nadalvars are the mixture of all these Villavar tribes ie Villavar, Malayar, Vanavar and Meenavars. When the Villavars mixed with Meenavars they assumed the title Nadalvar. The Dravidian ancient Pandyan kingdom of Villavars and Meenavars were attacked by Nagas from North India before 2500 years. Nagas were not Dravidians but a completely different race. Dravidians, Nagas and Aryans are the three primary races of ancient India. The Nagas were ethnically and culturally different people from Dravidian Tamils of the Paandyan kingdom. Kalithokai mentions the fierce war fought between the Villavar Meenavar armies and the Nagas, in which the Villavar Meenavars lost the central India to Nagas. Various Naga tribes started migrating to Pandya Maravar, Oviar, Eyinar and Aruvalar and Parathavar are few of these. Among these the Eyinar joined the Villavar-Nadalvars of Pandyan kingdom while the rest were antagonistic to the Pandyan kingdom. Parathavar will eventually replace the Meenavar people in the early years of christ. Pandyan kingdom had existed many thousand years earlier to the arrival of the Naga tribes arrived Pandyan kingdom. The Early Pandyan capitals had been at Then Madurai at Kumarikkandam and Kapada puram later. Finally the present Vada Madurai became capital. Korkai Ko + Irukkai (Tuticorin) was the major port city. Tenkasippatinam was the Royal household lived and was the seat of power. Because Tamiraparni river ran close to the Royal house. Sri Lanka was under the Pandyan Villavar kings. Sri Lanka was called Tambapani or Taprobane (in Greek) for the same reason. The early Naga invasions came through the Orissa and Andhrapradesh area and these Nagas from north were called Vada Nagas or Vadugas. Before 2000 years the Early Pandyan Kingdom was broken into the Pandyan kingdom of Madurai which ruled Southern Tamil Nadu and South

Thanks for all Information.........Nadar Caste.

I want 2 knw how many sub-castes in Nadar community with the correct name. I think there are 7 sub-castes in Nadar community. What are they? Add the name of Thiravia Nadar, Chembulingam Nadar, Karate David Selwyn Nadar, Arivanandha Pandian Nadar. Thiravia Nadar is my forefather; He sell all his property and buy land then give this free to Nadar peoples. This people request Him to name this village as "Thiraviapuram" but he refused & named as Sriregunathapuram and Rosemiapuram who had sold their land to Him and also He freely give many acres of land to palmya climbers. Thiravia Nadar and Karma Veerar Kamarajar are friends and also that He and Chembulingam Nadar are also frinds. Chembulingam Nadar was a robinhood who had fought against British people. Karate David Selwyn Nadar was a don who died for Nadars. Arivanandha Pandian Nadar was also died for Nadars.

There are so many sites for our caste.This site gives clear and new information's. I have a request for you. The Request is:There are so many Nadar Personalities,all our sites were giving information about the same or few people. It will be so useful if you try to collect more information about Nadar Personalities.

It is quite unfortunate that the St Thomas legend is found in a Pro Dravidian website.Your religious convictions should not distort the ancient history of Dravidians as the European colonizers such as Portuguese, Dutch and British did. The British demeaned the Dravidian culture. According to the Persian records of Edessa Mesopotomia, a book called Acts of Saint Thomas written by a jewish priest of Persia called Bardesan at 220 AD clearly states that Saint Thomas was invited by king Gondophorus of Taxila in Paksitan, Indus Valley. Gondophorus gave money to St.Thomas, a master architect of his age to build a palace for himself. Howver the Good Prophet spend the money for the poor without attempting to build the palace. The furious Gondophorus threw St.Thomas into the prison. Shortly following this incidence Gad the brother of Gondophorus fell ill. In his death bed Gad entered heaven and was surprised to see a magnificient new palace built at heaven. However the guards at the palace did not allow Gad to enter the palace explaing that the Palace was built for Gondophorus not for Gad. However Gad was cured and came back alive. Gondophorus hearing the story was much impressed with Saint Thomas and allowed him to leave the country. (Portuguese and Syrian Christians in the laterday created a legend that Gondophorus was a Tamil king ruling Madras called Kandappar) . All the Persian records suggest that St Thomas visited the Indo-Parthian kingdom where people spoke Persian and Greek and Roman the languages known to Jews of that era. The area mentioned in Persian records was not India but the adjoining areas of Indo Persian border, the Indus Valley. Saint Thomas then went to a nearby Kingdom called the kingdom of Misdeus or Mazdai perhaps situated at Indus valley or Persia proper. King Misdeus was infuriated when Saint Thomas converted his wife Tertia, son Juzanus, sister in law Princess of Mygdonia Ministers called Syphorus Carisus etc. Saint Thomas was martyred at Calamina perhaps at Persian gulf at the instance of King Misdeus. http://www.gnosis.org/library/constom.htm All these names are Greek and not in Tamil. There is no evidence that any Chera Tamil kings converted to Christianity. It is said that Christianity acquired the ideals and monastics system from Buddhism and not vice versa. The European colonizers popularized the story that St.Thomas came to Kerala and converted Namboothiri Brahmins to Christianity. Namboothiirs did not exist in the ancient Kerala. Namboothiris were Brahmins from Uttarpradesh who hail from a city called Ahichatra in the Indo-Nepalese border. When a North Indian Brahmins called Mayura Sharma became the king of the Kadamba kingdom in Karnataka he changed his name to Mayuravarma. This Mayuravarma is credited with bringing these Brahmins and Nagas from Uttarkhand and Nepal to Banavasi the Kadamba capital in the year 345 AD. Under the Brahmin leadership bands of Nagas (Bunts/Nagas) were brought to south india as slav.....
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Please help me getting the list of branches under Nadar Community.

Excellent piece of work to show the real history of Indian rulers. History note book often tells the winner story which are manipulated and foul-played by means of Sanskritization which causes the destruction of Mahavira and Buddhism followers in India. There are many Indian kings with the name "Varman". Is there any links? Also can you establish the Chola trade links with Greater India Region � This refers to the historical spread of the culture of India introduced by the Indianized kingdoms of the 2nd to 15th centuries by the Indian traders, which includes Burma (Burmese Indians), Cambodia and Laos(Khmer Empire), Thailand, Vietnam (Cham people), Malaysia and Indonesia(Srivijayan kingdom of Sumatra), Java (Singhasari kingdom, Majapahit kingdom), Bali, Borneo and Sulawesi, Singapore and The Philippines. In my opinion, if those kingdoms are formed by Dravidian (Kshatriya) kings then definitely it would have been done with sword, on the other hand if it is done by Aryan kings then it would have been done through marriage (female) relations Also provide the historical change periods more clearly like spread of Buddhism and cause of destruction in India, Spread of Sanskritization with the help of kings Andhapuram (back door entry to gain power), Spread of Islam in India as well as South East Asia, Spread of Christianity and impacts to the society please keep up the good work and work towards perfection for the Indian Rulers Banyan Tree.

Hi thats very nice please continue.

Valuable is the work you doing for our community. It can be very effective to bring Nadar communities around India together. I would suggest a discussion forum or a monthly e-newsletter where ideas, can be shared and people can get involved.

Tamil nadu Government's tree is PALM TREE.2000 years ago nadars wrote many books in palm leaves.Ninety percent of the nadars realise and believe that we are the pandians or pandaiyar. some maravars in devar caste claim we were the army warriors in pandian dynasty and listed in 18th century records. Nellai Nedumaran(rearch scientist) says they are cholas and have built temple in tanjure. But small portion of nadars are cholas. True capital of pandians are Korkai and latter it was shifted to madurai because of nayak invasion. So we accept small portion of maravars were in pandian dynasty. you can see pandiya kula nadars in some areas. most of the karukku pattaiyathar are pandia kula vamsam. So the Tamilnadu governmet should announce Nadar history is pandian history and Devar history is Cholas history in gassette. Kulasekara pandian, parakirama pandian, ilamvazhuthi,marans are Nadar kings.Nowadays many people use these titles. Mara Nadar or Marans may be misrepresented as MARAVANS OR MARAVARS(DEVAR CASTE) in 18th century british records but many books of nadar and nadar historians say nadars are pandians in dravidian race and pandians are nadars. Kings are always royals in history and not as warriors.Some shanars(nadars) were warriors as maravars(devar caste) in pandian or nadar dynasty. Expecting your reply. Dont consider poor english.

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Dear brothers, I am proud to carry a blood of a nadalwar, and I pray that this website goes a long way without any detrimental factors,please include Nadars who went to Malaya as I from Malaysia and need our community here to stand together proudly of our ancestors.

Its really good to see a site that discuss in depth about nadars and no other site gives such great information about ourself. Keep the good work. Im amazed to see a lot of books about us in this site and nowhere-else I could see information about these books. Great work.

Dear Sir, In Nadars there is a branch called mukandars, can you shed more light in it sir? Because My ancestors where called mukandars but pitifully i dont have any history about Mukandars! kindly help

We are much proud of our Tamil culture and our Nadar community. We were once the deprived community and now we are the developed one. But still our fellow deprived people like Pallar, Parayar, Navithar, Vannar, Sakkiliar are ill-treated in every walk of life. Instead of speaking proud things, we need to help them to come up. We need to unite with them and give social security and status as much our capacity. We need to declare them as Nadar or we need to come in one umbrella with one common name that is comfortable to them. This kind of act only will uplift the deprived people and bring social justice. This social justice will eventually bring nationalism.

People of Kizhavaneri (near vallioor) in Tirunelveli District claiming that their ancestors are Porayar from Tanjavore region. It is registered in several website and you can google it. Please have some look on that. That my lead to some royal linkage of Nadars. Best wishes.

A Nadar Zamindar Nattathi Nadars where the Zamindars of Nattathi.Nattathi Nadars are the sect amoung the nadars having the Zamindari tradition. Nadan, the Lord of Nattathi was believed to be from the lines of pandyas was a feudatory of the Kattabomma Nayaka, and his family was given Zamindari rights under the British Empire.He attained special "Sannad" which empowered him to travel in palanquin.Palanquins where also long used by the Nadan aristocracy of Tiruchendur. The last Zamindar Of nattathi Zamin Family was �Vaikunda Thiruvaluthi Nadar� who expired on 1892 his large properties where under legal dispute and it was divided among large number of claimants.

Caste system of Kerala or India can eradicate.

A compact data is available about our community ... We have to register all the names of our peoples in the country

Nadars are Villavar-Meenavar people who were the original Tamils or Dravidians. The Dravidians were opposed by Nagas and Aryans from North India. In ancient times the Villavar Meenavar (The ancient Meenavar people are merged with the Nadars. The ancient Meenavars were replaced by Parathavar an ethnically not related Naga tribe during the Sangam age (300 BC to 400 AD).The Villavar + Meenavar = Nadalvar or Nadar who became the rulers of Pandyan kingdom. Villavar ruled the Chera kingdom. The Pandyan kingdom was repeatedly attacked by Nagas. Kalithokai an ancient Tamil book mentions the war between Villavar-Meenavars against the Nagas perhaps around 1000 BC or earlier. In this great war the Villavars lost the Central India, the present Madhaya pradesh area. In the later period many Naga tribes joined or infiltrated the Villavar kingdoms. Various Naga tribes mentioned in the Sangam literature are Maravar Eyinar, Oviar Aruvalar etc.Among these Eyinar might have joined the Villavar - Nadars.Enadhi Nayanar the Nadar saint is mentioned as Illa Kula Chanrar Enadhi (Villavar Kula Chanrar Eyinan Adhi) The Nagas continuosly came to south from the present day Orissa area.The various Naga tribes were hostile to the Pandyan kingdom. Kalabhras invaded and subjugated between 300 - 600 AD. Kalabhras and Nagas joined and were opposed the Pandyan rule which was reinstated around 600 AD.Pandyan kingdom and Chera kingdom were replaced by Nagas from north Nairs (Bunt (community) of Tulunadu and Naicker from Andrapradesh who had joined the invading forces of Malik Kafur in 1310. Some of the Kalabhras and Nagas became agriculturists. Nadars had to face the Kalabhra Nagas who joined hands with the Vadugas in the 16th century. Nadar power declined as the Muslims and Nagas (Naicker and Nairs) started ruling from this period onwards. In the 19th century Nadar community came under attack by Naga,Kalabhra and Vadugas instigated by Aryan Brahmins (Narmadha Brahmins originally natives of Narmadha area in Gujarat.The women of Narmadha Brahmins still wear the sari in the Konkani style. The large Narmadha Brahmins though now talk Tamil appear in Tamil Nadu only after the Vijayanagara Naickers rose to power. Nadars are the remnants of an ancient Alwar Nadalvar people equivalent to Kshatriya in Dravidian land.

Dear sir here i am very happy to find our web page, and my samall suggestion can u develop this site tamil language also, if we create in tamil lot off our peoples will see our website, and they also knowing abt our community spl. thanks and regards KARTHIK SURIYAN NADAR

What about actor Sarath & tennis champion Amirtharaj please add.

Please mention some nadar people near Allahabad,u.p

Very nice.. I proud to be Nadar.. Thank u so much.

I am very proud for your responsibilities about our Nadar(NR) caste. Please tell "How many sub-castes are in Nadar(NR) community include Tamilnadu, Kerala and all over India; And also "We want to know about the other castes which are linked or related with Nadar(NR) caste".

Dear Sir, It is heartening to note the illustrous history of Nadars through the web site! The history of Nadars are made very confusive mainly because of Aryan foulplay. Apart from that there are some other classes working like the agents of the Aryans. They also contribute to de-route the history of Nadars. For example the Nair community (C.V. Raman Pillai) betrayed the true history of Dalapathi Ananthapadmanabhan Nadar of Travancore ( AD 1748). Now the same Nairs wrongly claim (During the last one year) the Bhunt community of Karnataka who were an ancient branch of Nadar Community. So let us be careful and aware of our roots in re-writing our history! Shivraj Tirunelveli

Sri Lanka was known as Tamraparani or Taprobane or after the homeland of Pandyan dynasty which ruled from the banks of Tamraparani with their Royal house at Tenkasi.(Sri Lanka was also called Serendib or Cherandeevu).http://livingheritage.org/taprobane.htm The two clans of Pandyas and Cheras could be the founders of the Pandyan dynasty at Anuradhapuram.http://kalanir.freehostia.com/anuradapura.html King Pandukhabaya ruled the Anuradha Puram kingdom otherwise called Thammanna kingdom (Thamraparani kingdom).Panaya Mara ruled between 104 BC to 88 BC and might belong to the Mara Nadalvar of Pandyan dynasty.Nalavars of Sri Lanka could have been Nadalvars of Pandyan heritage.

Nice site. Try perfecting it!

Short and sweet. Am sure this site will be a useful piece of history. Can be a little more colourful and illustrious. My best wishes to you.