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	'''Nankudi Vellalar/Nangudi Vellalar''' or [https://goo.gl/maps/ckyFNafau2hGPocH8 Sivakalai] Pillaimar (Pillai) is a [[Tamil people\|Tamil]] sub caste of [[Vellalar]] found in [[Tamil Nadu]], India.{{sfnp\|Ramanathan\|1969\|p=327\|ps=}} They claim descent from the [[Velir]] clan of [[Irukkuvel\|Irungovel]]s{{sfnp\|Ramanathan\|1969\|p=341\|ps=}} The hereditary headman of the caste was always invested with the title ''Irungovel''.{{sfnp\|Sinnakani\|p=248\|ps=}} Their original stronghold seems to have been southern districts of Tamil Nadu, viz. Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Korkai, Ambasamudram, etc. Some of them migrated to [[Srivaikuntam]] during the course of time and came to be known as ''Kottai Vellalar'' or ''Kottai Pillaimar'' as they built and lived in forts.{{sfnp\|Ramanathan\|1969\|p=331\|ps=}}		'''Nankudi Vellalar/Nangudi Vellalar''' or [https://goo.gl/maps/ckyFNafau2hGPocH8 Sivakalai] Pillaimar (Pillai) is a [[Tamil people\|Tamil]] sub caste of [[Vellalar]] found in [[Tamil Nadu]], India.{{sfnp\|Ramanathan\|1969\|p=327\|ps=}} They claim descent from the [[Velir]] clan of [[Irukkuvel\|Irungovel]]s{{sfnp\|Ramanathan\|1969\|p=341\|ps=}} The hereditary headman of the caste was always invested with the title ''Irungovel''.{{sfnp\|Sinnakani\|p=248\|ps=}} Their original stronghold seems to have been southern districts of Tamil Nadu, viz. Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Korkai, Ambasamudram, etc. Some of them migrated to [[Srivaikuntam]] during the course of time and came to be known as ''Kottai Vellalar'' or ''Kottai Pillaimar'' as they built and lived in forts.{{sfnp\|Ramanathan\|1969\|p=331\|ps=}}

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Introducing Nankudi Vellalar

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{{Portal|Tamils|India|Hinduism}}

'''Nankudi Vellalar/Nangudi Vellalar''' or [https://goo.gl/maps/ckyFNafau2hGPocH8 Sivakalai] Pillaimar (Pillai) is a [[Tamil people|Tamil]] sub caste of [[Vellalar]] found in [[Tamil Nadu]], India.{{sfnp|Ramanathan|1969|p=327|ps=}} They claim descent from the [[Velir]] clan of [[Irukkuvel|Irungovel]]s{{sfnp|Ramanathan|1969|p=341|ps=}} The hereditary headman of the caste was always invested with the title ''Irungovel''.{{sfnp|Sinnakani|p=248|ps=}} Their original stronghold seems to have been southern districts of Tamil Nadu, viz. Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli, Korkai, Ambasamudram, etc. Some of them migrated to [[Srivaikuntam]] during the course of time and came to be known as ''Kottai Vellalar'' or ''Kottai Pillaimar'' as they built and lived in forts.{{sfnp|Ramanathan|1969|p=331|ps=}}

H.R Pate (1917), the former district collector of [[Tirunelveli]] describes them as agriculturists, merchants and traders and as a remarkably prosperous and an energetic community.{{sfnp|Ramanathan|1969|p=340|ps=}}

==Etymology==
Nankudi Vellalar is derived from the words ''Nar''(good), ''Kudi'' (community) and [[Vellalar]] (farmers), so they were essentially a good community of farmers.{{fact|date=August 2020}}

==Caste structure==
The caste is made of a number of matrilineal exogamous clans called ''Kilais'' or branches descending from the female line.{{sfnp|Ramanathan|1969|p=338|ps=}}{{sfnp|Goody|Tambiah|1973|p=136|ps=}}

==References==
'''Citations'''
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'''Bibliography'''
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*{{Citation|title=Iruṅkoveḷ and the Koṭṭai Veḷāḷar--The Possible Origins of a Closed Community.Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 32(2), 323-343.|last=Ramanathan |first=P. |year=1969}}

*{{Citation|title=Tamil Nadu State: Thoothukudi District, Band 1|first=R. |last=Sinnakani|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu, Commissioner of Archives and Historical Research, 2007}}

*{{Citation|title=Bridewealth and Dowry|first1=Jack |last1=Goody |last2=Tambiah |first2=S.J. |publisher=CUP Archive, 1973|year=1973 |url=https://archive.org/details/bridewealthdowry0000good |url-access=registration}}

[[Category:Vellalar]]
[[Category:Social groups of Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian castes]]
● The history of Nankudi Vellalar was described in a tamil book named [[:ta:நற்குடி_வேளாளர்_வரலாறு_(நூல்)|நற்குடி வேளாளர் வரலாறு (நூல்)]]

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