# Agamudayar

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{{Short description|Tamil community}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox caste
|caste_name = Agamudayar
|languages = [Tamil](/source/Tamil_language)
|ethnicity = [Tamils](/source/Tamils)
|population = 1981-1982: 5 per cent of the [Backward Class](/source/Backward_Class) population of [Tamil Nadu](/source/Tamil_Nadu)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Ambasankar Commission and Backward Classes |first=P. |last=Radhakrishnan |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=24 |issue=23 |date=10 June 1989 |pages=1265–1268 |jstor=4394921}}</ref>
| image = Maruthu pandiyar.jpg
| caption = The Marudhu Pandiyars (Periya Marudhu and Chinna Marudhu)
|religions=[Hinduism](/source/Hinduism) |region=[Tamil Nadu](/source/Tamil_Nadu)}}

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'''Agamudayar''' (otherwise '''Agamudaiyar''', '''Akamudayar''', '''Agamudayan''') are a [Tamil](/source/Tamil_people) community found in the Indian state of [Tamil Nadu](/source/Tamil_Nadu).<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Das|first1=Biswajit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UBY5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT157|title=Caste, Communication and Power|last2=Majhi|first2=Debendra Prasad|date=2021|page=157|publisher=SAGE Publishing India|isbn=978-93-91370-90-9|language=en}}</ref> In Southern parts of Tamil Nadu, they are considered as one of the three castes which make up the [Thevar](/source/Thevar) or [Mukkulathor](/source/Mukkulathor) community. According to the anthropologist Zoe E Headley, the three communities (Agamudayar, [Kallar](/source/Kallar_(caste)) and [Maravar](/source/Maravar)) are the "numerically dominant rural backward castes of the southern districts of Tamil Nadu".<ref>{{cite book |title=A Companion to the Anthropology of India |editor-first=Isabelle |editor-last=Clark-Decès |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-44439-058-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=98uLj5FpTHQC&pg=RA3-PA1985 |chapter=Caste and Collective Memory in South Asia |first=Zoe E. |last=Headley |pages=1982, 1985}}</ref> Agamudayars are listed in the [National Commission for Backward Classes](/source/National_Commission_for_Backward_Classes) lists for Tamil Nadu as "Agamudayar”.  Mukkulathor is [Denotified community](/source/Denotified_Tribes) and [Backward Class community](/source/Other_Backward_Class).<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Backward Classes  approved by Government of Tamil Nadu |url=https://bcmbcmw.tn.gov.in/bclist.htm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=National Commission for Backward Classes |url=http://www.ncbc.nic.in/user_panel/GazetteResolution.aspx?Value=mPICjsL1aLv+2hza1cVSjGj2lbN6VTmq/WN4CcSyOxTDAvIblVnkv9NFuhO+dz42 |access-date=2022-05-30 |website=www.ncbc.nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YDyEAAAQBAJ&dq=Agamudayar+chera&pg=PT39|title=Caste as Social Capital The Complex Place of Caste in Indian Society|date=24 July 2023 |publisher=R Vaidyanathan|isbn=978-93-5708-186-3 }}</ref>

==Etymology==

The term ''Agamudayar'' is a Tamil word of "Agam" which means Palace or Land and "Udayar"means Lord or Holder "Palace Chief " or "Land holder".<ref>{{cite book| author = Madras (India : State)|author2= B. S. Baliga| title = Madras District Gazetteers: Salem. by Ramaswami, A| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=RRxuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA124| year = 1967| publisher = Printed by the Superintendent, Govt. Press| page = 124 }}</ref>

== Notable people ==
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* [T. R. Baalu](/source/T._R._Baalu)
* [T. R. B. Rajaa](/source/T._R._B._Rajaa)
* [P. U. Chinnappa](/source/P._U._Chinnappa)
* [S. P. Jananathan](/source/S._P._Jananathan)
* [Manivannan](/source/Manivannan)
* [Maruthu Pandiyar](/source/Maruthu_Pandiyar)
* [Sangili Murugan](/source/Sangili_Murugan)
* [S. S. Rajendran](/source/S._S._Rajendran)
* [K. Samarasam](/source/K._Samarasam) (Politician) 
* [Soori (actor)](/source/Soori_(actor))
* [Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar](/source/Sandow_M._M._A._Chinnappa_Thevar)
* [V. Thiruselvam](/source/V._Thiruselvam)
* [A. Veerappan](/source/A._Veerappan)
* [Pachaiyappa Mudaliar](/source/Pachaiyappa_Mudaliar)

==References==
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Category:Mukkulathor
Category:Indian castes
Category:Social groups of Tamil Nadu
Category:South Indian communities
Category:Other Backward Classes

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