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The '''Raja of Chettinad''' was an honorary title bestowed on the head of the [[S. Rm. M. family]] of [[Kanadukathan]] in the [[Chettinad]] region by the government of the [[Madras Presidency]] during the [[British Raj]] era in India.<ref name="Scharfe">{{cite book |title=The State in Indian Tradition |first=Hartmut |last=Scharfe |publisher=BRILL |year=1989 |isbn=9789004090606 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2AQ4AAAAIAAJ |page=57}}</ref> The title was first bestowed upon [[Sir Annamalai Chettiar]] in 1929<ref>{{cite book |title=Elites in South Asia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2u88AAAAIAAJ |page=252 |editor1-first=Edmund |editor1-last=Leach |editor2-first=S. N. |editor2-last=Mukherjee |publisher=Cambridge University Press |chapter=European and Indian Entrepreneurship in India, 1900-1930 |first=Amiya Kumar |last=Bagchi |year=1970}}</ref> in recognition of his public service and has been described by Hartmut Scharfe as a "fictitious hereditary title" of the type that it was possible to confer in accordance with the traditions of the ancient Indian epic text, the ''[[Mahabharata]]''.<ref name="Scharfe" /><br />
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== List of Rajahs ==<br />
* Sir Annamalai Chettiar (1929–48)<br />
* [[M. A. Muthiah Chettiar]] (1948–84)<br />
* [[M. A. M. Ramaswamy]] (1984-2015)<br />
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== List of Kumarrajahs ==<br />
The heir-apparent was known as "Kumarrajah".<br />
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* M. A. Muthiah Chettiar (1929–48)<br />
* [[M. A. M. Muthiah]] (1948–70)<br />
* M. A. M. Ramaswamy (1970–84)<br />
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