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	==Demographics==		==Demographics==
	They are concentrated in [[Sivagangai]], [[Ramanathapuram]], [[Thanjavur]], [[Madurai]], [[Tirunelveli]] and [[Pudukkottai]] districts.		They are concentrated in [[Chennai]], [[Sivagangai]], [[Ramanathapuram]], [[Thanjavur]], [[Madurai]], [[Tirunelveli]] and [[Pudukkottai]] districts.

	==References==		==References==

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{{Infobox caste
|caste_name = Agamudayar
|languages = [[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|ethnicity = [[Tamils]]
|population = 1981-1982: 11 per cent of the [[Other Backwards Class]] population of [[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>
| education_reservation =
| employment_reservation =
| image = Agamudaiyar.jpg
| caption = Agamudaiyar cultivators, c. 1909
}}

'''Agamudayar''' (otherwise '''Agamudaiyar''', '''Akamudayar''', '''Agamudayan''') are a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] community found in the Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]].{{cn|date=April 2020}} Together with the [[Kallar (caste)|Kallar]] , [[Maravar]], they form the Thevar ([[Mukkulathor]]) community. According to the anthropologist Zoe E Headley, the three communities 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 |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>

==Etymology==

The term ''Agamudayar'' is a Tamil word meaning "Householder" or "Landholder".<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>

==Demographics==
They are concentrated in [[Sivagangai]], [[Ramanathapuram]], [[Thanjavur]], [[Madurai]], [[Tirunelveli]] and [[Pudukkottai]] districts.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
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[[Category:Mukkulathor]]
[[Category:Social groups of Tamil Nadu]]

Agamudayar - Revision history

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