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	{{Infobox ethnic group		{{Short description\|Tamil surname}}{{Infobox ethnic group
	\| group = Mudaliar		\| group = Mudaliar
	\| popplace = [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Sri Lanka]]		\| popplace = [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Sri Lanka]]

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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Mudaliar
| popplace = [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Sri Lanka]]
| languages = [[Tamil Language|Tamil]]
}}'''Mudaliar''' (alternatively spelled: '''Mudhaliar''', '''Muthaliar''', '''Mudhali''', '''Muthali''', '''Mudhar''', '''Muthar''' or '''Moodley''') is a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] surname.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFF9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|title=The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India|last=Barnett|first=Marguerite Ross|year=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400867189|page=236}}</ref> The surname is most prevalent among Tamils from [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Portuguese Encounters with Sri Lanka and the Maldives: Translated Texts from the Age of Discoveries|last=Silva|first=Chandra Richard De|date=2009|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=9780754601869|pages=225|language=en}}</ref>

The title was primarily used by the communities like the [[Agamudaiyar]], [[Karaiyar|Karaiyars]], [[Kaikolar|Sengunthars]] and [[Vellalar|Vellalars]].<ref name="ramaswamy">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALUvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA229|title=Historical Dictionary of the Tamils|last=Ramaswamy|first=Vijaya|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-53810-686-0|page=229}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=73msCkfD5V8C&pg=PA109|title=Caste, Nationalism and Ethnicity: An Interpretation of Tamil Cultural History and Social Order|last=Pandian|first=Jacob|publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=1987|isbn=978-0-86132-136-0|page=109, 114}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/193948/7/chapter%205.pdf|title=Mudaliar title usage}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=M, S, A|first=Vijaya, Kanthimathi, Ramesh|date=2 August 2008|title=Genetic study of scheduled caste populations of Tamil Nadu|url=https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/jgen/087/02/0171-0174|journal=Journal of Genetics|volume=87|issue=2|pages=171–4|doi=10.1007/s12041-008-0026-2|pmid=18776647|s2cid=32841661|via=Indian Academy of Sciences}}</ref> Other communities adopted it as means to present themselves as superior to the social status which they actually held.<ref name="ramaswamy"/>

==Etymology==
The title is derived from the Tamil word ''muthal'' or "muthar" meaning ''first'' with the suffix ''yaar'' denoting ''people''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YFF9BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|title=The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India|last=Barnett|first=Marguerite Ross|year=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9781400867189|page=236|language=en}}</ref> The title is used in the same sense as simply meaning ''headman''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEolDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47|title=Who Are the Jews of India?|last=Katz|first=Nathan|year=2000|publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-52021-323-4|pages=47–48}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Ceylonese Mudaliyars]]
*[[List of Mudaliars]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Indian surnames]]

Mudaliar - Revision history

ChenHleeLiyue: corrected article additionally and improved wording

->Ankush M. Nahata at 03:21, 16 September 2021

imported>TigerMaharaja1500 at 11:54, 24 June 2021