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'''Poraiyar Nadar's estate''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: பொறையார் நாடார் எஸ்டேட்), popularly known as Nadar estate was one of the largest zamindari estate in the erstwhile [[Tanjore District (Madras Presidency)|Tanjore district]] of [[Madras Presidency]], British India. Headquartered in the village of Poraiyar, [[Mayiladuthurai district]] (Previously [[Thanjavur district]]), Nadar's estate covered a total area of 7000 acres in the [[Cauvery]] delta region.

== History ==
The patriarch of the Nadar estate was Vellaiya Nadar, he was an ''abkari'' contractor, he established several distillery industries across South India, following Vellaiya Nadar, the Poraiyar Nadar estate remained as one of the biggest distillers of British India for more than a century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=C. J. |title=South India : Political Institutions and Political Change 1880?1940 |date=1975 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited |isbn=9781349027484 |pages=26–72–73}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Washbrook |first1=D. A. |title=The emergence of provincial politics : the Madras Presidency, 1870-1920 |date=1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge [England] |isbn=9780521053457 |pages=114–115-}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The History of Poraiyar Nadar Estate |url=https://nadars.in/en/the-history-of-poraiyar-nadar-estate/ |website=Nadars.in}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Thacker's Indian Directory: Including Burma and Ceylon 1937-1938 |url=https://indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/thackers-indian-directory-including-burma-and-ceylon-1937-1938 |website=Indian Culture}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Asylum Press Almanack And Directory Of Madras And Southern India 1918 |date=1918 |pages=1477–78 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83800/page/n1493/mode/2up}}</ref>

Porayar Nadar estate's V. Thavasumuthu Nadar bought the Ariyalur Zamin in the court auction and became the Zamindar of Ariyalur.<ref>{{cite book |title=Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for Trichinopoly District |publisher=Superintendent, Government Press |page=146}}</ref> Poraiyar Nadar Estate has held the title of Zamindar of Ariyalur for half a century.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Asylum Press Almanack And Directory Of Madras And Southern India 1919 |date=1919 |page=1596 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83807/page/n1613/mode/2up}}</ref>

Thavasumuthu Nadar was a philanthropist, he desired to develop education in his rural area, established Thavasumuthu Nadar Higher Secondary School in 1882 in Poraiyar.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ayyar |first1=KN Krishnaswami |title=Statistical Appendix And Supplement To The Revised District Manual (1906) For Tanjore District |date=1933 |page=201 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.358943/page/n225/mode/2up}}</ref> He helped to construct the [[Government Raja Mirasdar Hospital|Raja Mirasdar Hospital]] in Thanjavur in 1878.<ref>{{cite book |last1=புலவர் |first1=செ. இராசு |title=தஞ்சை மராட்டியர் கல்வெட்டுகள் |date=1987 |isbn=81-7090-077-8 |page=41}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Srinivasan |first1=G. |title=Royals, landlords behind RMH ophthalmology department |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/140319/royals-landlords-behind-rmh-ophthalmology-department.html |website=Deccan Chronicle |language=en |date=14 March 2019}}</ref>

Nadar estate showed an active interest in the administrative affairs of Hindu temples, In 1889, V. Ponnusamy Nadar of Nadar estate was elected to the Kumbakonam Temple Committee, which administered Hindu temples in the taluks of Kumbakonam, Mayavaram and Shiyali.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Christopher John |last2=D. A |first2=Washbrook |title=South India : political institutions and political change, 1880-1940 |date=1975 |publisher=Macmillan Co. of India |location=Delhi |isbn=9780033390675 |pages=29–38 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Washbrook |first1=D. A. |title=The emergence of provincial politics : the Madras Presidency, 1870-1920 |date=1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge [England] |isbn=9780521053457 |pages=115–187–188 }}</ref>

The most well known among the Nadar estate was [[T. Rattinasami Nadar|Rao Bahadur T. Rathinasamy Nadar]], he established the first Sangam for the [[Nadar (caste)|Nadar]] community, the [[Nadar Mahajana Sangam]] in 1910.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hardgrave |first1=Robert L. |title=The Nadars of Tamilnad : the political culture of a community in change |date=2006 |publisher=Ajay Kumar Jain for Manohar Publishers & Distributours |location=New Delhi |isbn=9788173047015 |page=131}}</ref><ref name="Lucy Carroll">{{cite journal | title=Colonial Perceptions of Indian Society and the Emergence of Caste(s) Associations| author=Lucy Carroll| journal=The Journal of Asian Studies| date=Feb 1978| volume=37 | issue = 2| pages=234–235| doi=10.2307/2054164| jstor=2054164| s2cid=146635639}}</ref> During the Congress party's main agitational period, from inception in 1885 to early 1890s, T. Ratnaswami Nadar was one of its financiers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=C. J. |title=South India : Political Institutions and Political Change 1880?1940 |date=1975 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited |location=[Place of publication not identified] |isbn=978-1-349-02748-4 |page=200}}</ref>

T. Rathnaswamy Nadar also played a vital role in the development of [[Tharangambadi|Tranquebar]] region by bringing in the railway line for the town.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lazar |first1=Prof. P. Maria |title=Tales of Tranquebar |pages=26}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sivasubramaniyan |first1=A |title=Thamizhaga Varalatril Tharangampadi |publisher=New Century Book House |isbn=9788123430508 |page=10}}</ref> To honor his services, the British Government conferred [[Rao Bahadur]] Award to him 1911.<ref>{{cite book |last1=John |first1=Murray |title=The Historical Record of The Imperial Visit to India-1911 |page=364}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Who's who in India (lives and photographs of the recipients of honors on 12th December 1911) |page=113}}</ref>

In 1906, Nadar estate's T. Guruswami Nadar built the hostel building for Kumbakonam Arts and Science College and dedicated it to the memory of his father V. Thavsasmuthu Nadar and named the hostel as "Queen Victoria" to commemorate her Golden Jubilee.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hostel of Government College for Men - Main Building |url=http://nmma.nic.in/nmma/builtDetail.do?refId=3812&state=33 |website=Nmma.nic.in}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Poraiyar Nadar Estate's Philanthropy Services |url=https://nadars.in/en/poraiyar-nadar-estates-philanthropy-services/ |website=Nadars.in}}</ref>

T.V. Balagurusamy Nadar of Nadar estate was one of the founder-director of [[Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited|Tamilnad Mercantile Bank]] (then known as Nadars Bank ltd) in 1921.<ref>{{cite web |title=Founder Directors of TMB |url=https://www.tmb.in/management.aspx |website=Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Official Website}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Zamindari estates]]
[[Category:Thanjavur district]]
[[Category:Indian feudalism]]
[[Category:Mayiladuthurai district]]

Nadar estate - Revision history

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