Udayar (caste)

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{{About|the Indian caste||Udayar (disambiguation){{!}}Udayar}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2020}}
{{infobox caste
| caste_name = Udayar
| image =
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| classification =
| religions = [[Hinduism]], [[Christianity]]
| country = India
| state =
| populated_states = [[Tamil Nadu]]
| languages = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
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| related = [[Tamil people]]
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The '''Udayar''' is a title used by multiple [[caste system in India|caste]] in the state of [[Tamil Nadu]], India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bcmbcmw.tn.gov.in/bclist.htm|title=List of Backward Classes Approved}}</ref>
The main caste using '''udayar''' title is [[malayaman]], nathaman castes belongs to parkavakulam community of [[tamilnadu]].Other caste like thuluva vellalar, konar, naidu using udayar title at some surroundings.

== Etymology ==

The word ''Udayar'' in [[Tamil language|Tamil]] means ''Lord'' or ''Possessor'' as in ''Possessor of land or kingdom''.{{cn|date=July 2020}}

== Present status ==

According to Selva Raj, the Udayar are land owning agriculturists in Tamil Nadu. Udayar means landlord, together with the Kallar & Maravar castes, Udayar are quite dominant in the region variously known as [[Ramnad]] and the [[Maravar]] country.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto |first=Selva J. |last=Raj |title=Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines |editor1-first=Selva J. |editor1-last=Raj |editor2-first=Corinne G. |editor2-last=Dempsey |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2002 |page=86 |isbn=9780791455197 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zv42cV5dQmYC |accessdate=2012-05-01}}</ref>

== Religion ==

In Ramnad and the nearby areas of [[Pudukottai]], Madurai, Salem, [[Namakkal]], [[Tanjore]] and [[Trichy]], they and their two fellow Maravar caste groups are prominent in their cult worship of the shrine at [[Oriyur]] that commemorates [[John de Britto]], a 17th-century [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[Jesuit]] [[missionary]] and [[martyr]]. Raj says, "A notable feature of the Britto cult is that it is centered around caste identities rather than religious affiliation", and thus members of the caste-group, irrespective of their religious affiliation regard Britto as their clan-deity.<ref name=Raj2002p87>{{cite book |chapter=Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto |first=Selva J. |last=Raj |title=Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines |editor1-first=Selva J. |editor1-last=Raj |editor2-first=Corinne G. |editor2-last=Dempsey |publisher=SUNY Press |year=2002 |page=87 |isbn=978-0-79145-519-7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zv42cV5dQmYC&pg=PA87}}</ref>

Some Udayars are [[Roman Catholic]] Christians.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxdhTsNWzTMC|title=Communities Panchayats and Governance at Grassroots|last1=Palanithurai|first1=Ganapathy|last2=Ragupathy|first2=Varadarajan|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=2008|isbn=9788180695636|page=138|accessdate=2012-05-01}}</ref><ref name="Raj2002p87" />

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite journal |first=Geoffrey |last=Burkhart |title=Ranges of Endogamy in a Tamil Group |journal=Indian Anthropologist |volume=2 |issue=1 |date=June 1972 |pages=1–6 |jstor=41919203}}
*{{cite journal |title=On the absence of descent groups among some Udayars of South India |first=Geoffrey |last=Burkhart |doi=10.1177/006996677601000102 |journal=Contributions to Indian Sociology |date=January 1976 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=31–61|s2cid=143260084 }}

[[Category:Social groups of Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Christian communities of India]]

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