Maravar (also known as Maravan and Marava) are a Tamil community in the state of Tamil Nadu. These people are one of the three branches of the Mukkulathor confederacy. Members of the Maravar community often use the honorific title Thevar.
The Udayar is a title used by multiple caste in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
The Pallar, also called Mallar, are an agricultural community from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. The Pallars traditionally inhabited the fertile wetland area referred to as Marutham in the literary devices of the Sangam landscape....
Immanuvel Devendrar (9 October 1924 – 11 September 1957), who later took the name Immanuel Sekaran, was a civil rights activist, former soldier and a party worker for the Indian National Congress in Tamil Nadu, India.
Sriman Hiranyagarbha Ravikula Raja Muthu Vijaya Raghunatha Raja Raghunatha Deva Kilavan Setupati (r. 1671–1710) was the first king of the Ramnad Kingdom which is also known as the "Maravar Kingdom". He ruled from 1673 to 1708 and oversaw the growth...
The Thanjavur Maratha kingdom, ruled by the Bhonsle dynasty, was a South Indian Monarchy that governed the Kaveri delta from 1675 to 1855. It was established by Maratha general Ekoji I (Vyankoji Bhosale), with its capital at Thanjavur. The royal...
The Bhonsle dynasty (or Bhonsale, Bhosale, Bhosle) is an Indian Marathi royal house of the Bhonsle clan. The Bhonsles claimed descent from the Rajput Sisodia dynasty, but were likely Kunbi Marathas. They served as the Chhatrapatis or kings of the...
The Kamudi Temple entry agitation was an agitation by the Nadar community to enter the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple in Kamudi or Kamuthi in 1897. On the night of 14 May 1897 the Nadars forcibly entered the temple and inside the Sanctum Sanctorum...
Vallal Pon Pandithurai Thevar (21 March 1867 – 2 December 1911), born Ukkira Pandian, also known as Pandi Durai Thevar, was the Zamindar of Palavanatham, Virudhunagar District in Tamil Nadu, India. A scholar and poet belonging to the royal house of...
The Nanda Empire was a vast empire that governed in Magadha and Gangetic plains with an enormous geographical reach in 4th-century BCE northeastern India, with some accounts suggesting existence as far back as the 5th century BCE. The Nandas built...
