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	The '''Thachudaya Kaimals''' were a lineage of ruling chiefs in [[Travancore]], now in the Indian state of Kerala.<ref>Muddiman, A. P. “British India.” Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, vol. 3, no. 3, 1921, pp. 125–135. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/752876. Accessed 27 Mar. 2021.</ref> The Thachudaya Kaimal is a sacerdotal dignitary in Kerala and is considered the spiritual chief and temporal ruler of the [[Koodalmanikyam Temple]] and its estates. The line goes back into antiquity and is mentioned in the [[Skanda Purana]]. Tradition dictates that the Guruvayur temple belonging to the Zamorin of Malabar, the Koodalmanikyam temple of the Thachudaya Kaimal family of Travancore and the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple of the Travancore royal family are the grandest temples in Kerala in terms of size and proportion of offerings.{{cn\|date=January 2018}}		The '''Thachudaya Kaimals''' were a lineage of ruling chiefs in [[Travancore]], now in the Indian state of Kerala.<ref>Muddiman, A. P. “British India.” Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, vol. 3, no. 3, 1921, pp. 125–135. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/752876. Accessed 27 Mar. 2021.</ref> The Thachudaya Kaimal is a sacerdotal dignitary in Kerala and is considered the spiritual chief and temporal ruler of the [[Koodalmanikyam Temple]] and its estates. The line goes back into antiquity and is mentioned in the [[Skanda Purana]]. Tradition dictates that the Guruvayur temple belonging to the [[Zamorin\|Zamorin of Malabar]], the Koodalmanikyam temple of the Thachudaya Kaimal family of Travancore and the [[Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple]] of the [[Travancore royal family]] are the grandest temples in Kerala in terms of size and proportion of offerings.{{citation needed\|date=January 2018}}

	Historians are of the opinion that the first Kaimal of the temple was the [[Kulasekhara Alvar\|Kulasekhara Perumal of the second Chera Empire\|]] a venerated saint in Vaishanavism <ref>Memoir of the Survey of Travancore and Cochin states, Lt. Ward and Lt. Conner 1893 </ref> <ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nairs.in/bio_t.html\|title = Biography of Eminent Nairs}}</ref> Despite this, the Thachudaya Kaimal combined their instinctive conservatism with the most liberal views. [[Mahatma Gandhi]], recognising that by ancient law and custom the Thachudaya Kaimal had ultimate spiritual authority over the Hindus, visited Irinjalakkuda during the 1930s to persuade the Kaimal to order by decree the [[Temple Entry Proclamation]] and to persuade the Maharaja to issue an ordinance to abolish untouchability.<ref>The Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 13.</ref> Following Gandhi's visit and Temple Entry in Travancore, an attempt to depose the Thachudaya Kaimal as a ruling chief and outcaste the Maharaja of Travancore from Hinduism was instigated by the Raja of Cochin but the Kaimal was reinstated by the [[British Raj]] authorities with an order from the Viceroy and [[Governor-General of India]].<ref>Alappat Sreedhara Menon in Triumph & Tragedy in Travancore: Annals of Sir C. P.'s sixteen years, Publisher: Current Books (2001), {{ISBN\|978-8124010945}} under section titled 'The Thachudaya Kaimal Affair</ref>{{pn\|date=January 2018}}		Historians are of the opinion that the first Kaimal of the temple was the [[Kulasekhara Alvar\|Kulasekhara Perumal of the second Chera Empire]] a venerated saint in Vaishanavism <ref>Memoir of the Survey of Travancore and Cochin states, Lt. Ward and Lt. Conner 1893</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.nairs.in/bio_t.html\|title = Biography of Eminent Nairs}}</ref> Despite this, the Thachudaya Kaimal combined their instinctive conservatism with the most liberal views. [[Mahatma Gandhi]], recognising that by ancient law and custom the Thachudaya Kaimal had ultimate spiritual authority over the Hindus, visited Irinjalakkuda during the 1930s to persuade the Kaimal to order by decree the [[Temple Entry Proclamation]] and to persuade the Maharaja to issue an ordinance to abolish untouchability.<ref>The Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 13.</ref> Following Gandhi's visit and Temple Entry in Travancore, an attempt to depose the Thachudaya Kaimal as a ruling chief and outcaste the Maharaja of Travancore from Hinduism was instigated by the [[Kingdom of Cochin\|Raja of Cochin]] but the Kaimal was reinstated by the [[British Raj]] authorities with an order from the Viceroy and [[Governor-General of India]].<ref>Alappat Sreedhara Menon in Triumph & Tragedy in Travancore: Annals of Sir C. P.'s sixteen years, Publisher: Current Books (2001), {{ISBN\|978-8124010945}} under section titled 'The Thachudaya Kaimal Affair</ref>{{page needed\|date=January 2018}}

	==End of hereditary rights==		==End of hereditary rights==
	Nominated by the Maharaja of Travancore, the Kaimal was raised to the status of Manikkam Keralar by an elaborate Brahminical ceremony called Jatakavarodham where all the ruling chiefs of Kerala had to be present.<ref>Pushpalatha K. “Coronation and Installation Ceremonies of the Chiefs of Kerala and Their Implications.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 69, 2008, pp. 1262–1263., www.jstor.org/stable/44147293. Accessed 27 Mar. 2021.</ref> Once anointed, the Thachudaya Kaimal had no acknowledged superiors in spiritual matters. The Ruling Chief had an escort of the Travancore [[Nair Brigade]]. He had no acknowledged superiors and did not rise even in the presence of kings. The residence of the Thachudaya Kaimals is the Kottilakkal Palace in [[Irinjalakuda]]. The heraldry of the Kaimals bear the insignia of a coiled conch-shell with the words ''Manikkan Keralar''. The rule of the empire was also vested in the Kaimal from time to time, especially when there is an interregnum between the death of one king and anointing of an other.<ref>K. P. Padmanabha Menon, History of Kerala Vol ii </ref>{{full\|date=January 2018}}
	With the 26th amendment of the Indian constitution in 1971,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm\|title=The Constitution (Amendment)\|url-status=live\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206041333/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm\|archivedate=6 December 2011\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the princely order in India was abolished by presidential decree and thus the Thachudaya Kaimals lost their claim to the temple and its estates.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/articlearc.asp?aid=113418&section=asia\|title=Daily News with The Gulf Today on GoDubai, Middle East, Dubai\|publisher=UAE Online News\|url-status=live\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415170659/http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/articlearc.asp?aid=113418&section=asia\|archivedate=15 April 2016\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Those properties are now run by a Trust managed by the [[District Collector]] although a vestige of former power lies in the current Thachudaya Kaimal being the chief trustee of the temple.{{cn\|date=January 2018}} The Thachudaya Kaimals enjoyed legal rights such as being preceded by a personal escort of attendants with lamp and sword despite the loss of pension.		Nominated by the [[Maharaja of Travancore]], the Kaimal was raised to the status of [[Manikkam Keralar]] by an elaborate Brahminical ceremony called [[Jatakavarodham]] where all the ruling chiefs of Kerala had to be present.<ref>Pushpalatha K. “Coronation and Installation Ceremonies of the Chiefs of Kerala and Their Implications.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 69, 2008, pp. 1262–1263., www.jstor.org/stable/44147293. Accessed 27 Mar. 2021.</ref> Once anointed, the Thachudaya Kaimal had no acknowledged superiors in spiritual matters. The Ruling Chief had an escort of the Travancore [[Nair Brigade]]. He had no acknowledged superiors and did not rise even in the presence of kings. The residence of the Thachudaya Kaimals is the Kottilakkal Palace in [[Irinjalakuda]]. The heraldry of the Kaimals bear the insignia of a coiled conch-shell with the words ''Manikkan Keralar''. The rule of the empire was also vested in the Kaimal from time to time, especially when there is an interregnum between the death of one king and anointing of an other.<ref>K. P. Padmanabha Menon, History of Kerala Vol ii</ref>{{full citation needed\|date=January 2018}}
			With the 26th amendment of the Indian constitution in 1971,<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm\|title=The Constitution (Amendment)\|url-status=live\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206041333/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm\|archivedate=6 December 2011\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the princely order in India was abolished by presidential decree and thus the Thachudaya Kaimals lost their claim to the temple and its estates.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/articlearc.asp?aid=113418&section=asia\|title=Daily News with The Gulf Today on GoDubai, Middle East, Dubai\|publisher=UAE Online News\|url-status=live\|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415170659/http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/articlearc.asp?aid=113418&section=asia\|archivedate=15 April 2016\|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Those properties are now run by a Trust managed by the [[District Collector]] although a vestige of former power lies in the current Thachudaya Kaimal being the chief trustee of the temple.{{citation needed\|date=January 2018}} The Thachudaya Kaimals enjoyed legal rights such as being preceded by a personal escort of attendants with lamp and sword despite the loss of pension.

	[[File:H H Thachudaya Kaimal (1895-?).png\|thumbnail\|The Thachudaya Kaimal]]		[[File:H H Thachudaya Kaimal (1895-?).png\|thumbnail\|The Thachudaya Kaimal]]

	The penultimate Thachudaya Kaimal was named Bhaskara at birth on 22 June 1895 in the Mundanad branch of the [[Odanad\|Kayamkulam royal family]], by then residing at Valiyasala, [[Trivandrum]]. He was an upasaka of [[Ganapati\|Ganesha]] and the thevaram idol he worshipped is now worshipped with a temple in its own right outside the Koodalmanikkam Temple <ref>Chattampi Swamikalude Gruhasta Shishyanma, Ananthakumara Press, Sivakasi </ref>{{full\|date=January 2018}}		The penultimate Thachudaya Kaimal was named Bhaskara at birth on 22 June 1895 in the Mundanad branch of the [[Odanad\|Kayamkulam royal family]], by then residing at Valiyasala, [[Trivandrum]]. He was an upasaka of [[Ganapati\|Ganesha]] and the thevaram idol he worshipped is now worshipped with a temple in its own right outside the [[Koodalmanikkam Temple]]<ref>Chattampi Swamikalude Gruhasta Shishyanma, Ananthakumara Press, Sivakasi</ref>{{full citation needed\|date=January 2018}}

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{{short description|Lineage of ruling chiefs in ancient Trvancore}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}}
The '''Thachudaya Kaimals''' were a lineage of ruling chiefs in [[Travancore]], now in the Indian state of Kerala.<ref>Muddiman, A. P. “British India.” Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law, vol. 3, no. 3, 1921, pp. 125–135. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/752876. Accessed 27 Mar. 2021.</ref> The Thachudaya Kaimal is a sacerdotal dignitary in Kerala and is considered the spiritual chief and temporal ruler of the [[Koodalmanikyam Temple]] and its estates. The line goes back into antiquity and is mentioned in the [[Skanda Purana]]. Tradition dictates that the Guruvayur temple belonging to the Zamorin of Malabar, the Koodalmanikyam temple of the Thachudaya Kaimal family of Travancore and the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple of the Travancore royal family are the grandest temples in Kerala in terms of size and proportion of offerings.{{cn|date=January 2018}}

Historians are of the opinion that the first Kaimal of the temple was the [[Kulasekhara Alvar|Kulasekhara Perumal of the second Chera Empire|]] a venerated saint in Vaishanavism <ref>Memoir of the Survey of Travancore and Cochin states, Lt. Ward and Lt. Conner 1893 </ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nairs.in/bio_t.html|title = Biography of Eminent Nairs}}</ref> Despite this, the Thachudaya Kaimal combined their instinctive conservatism with the most liberal views. [[Mahatma Gandhi]], recognising that by ancient law and custom the Thachudaya Kaimal had ultimate spiritual authority over the Hindus, visited Irinjalakkuda during the 1930s to persuade the Kaimal to order by decree the [[Temple Entry Proclamation]] and to persuade the Maharaja to issue an ordinance to abolish untouchability.<ref>The Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 13.</ref> Following Gandhi's visit and Temple Entry in Travancore, an attempt to depose the Thachudaya Kaimal as a ruling chief and outcaste the Maharaja of Travancore from Hinduism was instigated by the Raja of Cochin but the Kaimal was reinstated by the [[British Raj]] authorities with an order from the Viceroy and [[Governor-General of India]].<ref>Alappat Sreedhara Menon in Triumph & Tragedy in Travancore: Annals of Sir C. P.'s sixteen years, Publisher: Current Books (2001), {{ISBN|978-8124010945}} under section titled 'The Thachudaya Kaimal Affair</ref>{{pn|date=January 2018}}

==End of hereditary rights==
Nominated by the Maharaja of Travancore, the Kaimal was raised to the status of Manikkam Keralar by an elaborate Brahminical ceremony called Jatakavarodham where all the ruling chiefs of Kerala had to be present.<ref>Pushpalatha K. “Coronation and Installation Ceremonies of the Chiefs of Kerala and Their Implications.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 69, 2008, pp. 1262–1263., www.jstor.org/stable/44147293. Accessed 27 Mar. 2021.</ref> Once anointed, the Thachudaya Kaimal had no acknowledged superiors in spiritual matters. The Ruling Chief had an escort of the Travancore [[Nair Brigade]]. He had no acknowledged superiors and did not rise even in the presence of kings. The residence of the Thachudaya Kaimals is the Kottilakkal Palace in [[Irinjalakuda]]. The heraldry of the Kaimals bear the insignia of a coiled conch-shell with the words ''Manikkan Keralar''. The rule of the empire was also vested in the Kaimal from time to time, especially when there is an interregnum between the death of one king and anointing of an other.<ref>K. P. Padmanabha Menon, History of Kerala Vol ii </ref>{{full|date=January 2018}}
With the 26th amendment of the Indian constitution in 1971,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm|title=The Constitution (Amendment)|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111206041333/http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/amend/amend26.htm|archivedate=6 December 2011|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the princely order in India was abolished by presidential decree and thus the Thachudaya Kaimals lost their claim to the temple and its estates.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/articlearc.asp?aid=113418&section=asia|title=Daily News with The Gulf Today on GoDubai, Middle East, Dubai|publisher=UAE Online News|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415170659/http://www.godubai.com/gulftoday/articlearc.asp?aid=113418&section=asia|archivedate=15 April 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Those properties are now run by a Trust managed by the [[District Collector]] although a vestige of former power lies in the current Thachudaya Kaimal being the chief trustee of the temple.{{cn|date=January 2018}} The Thachudaya Kaimals enjoyed legal rights such as being preceded by a personal escort of attendants with lamp and sword despite the loss of pension.

[[File:H H Thachudaya Kaimal (1895-?).png|thumbnail|The Thachudaya Kaimal]]

The penultimate Thachudaya Kaimal was named Bhaskara at birth on 22 June 1895 in the Mundanad branch of the [[Odanad|Kayamkulam royal family]], by then residing at Valiyasala, [[Trivandrum]]. He was an upasaka of [[Ganapati|Ganesha]] and the thevaram idol he worshipped is now worshipped with a temple in its own right outside the Koodalmanikkam Temple <ref>Chattampi Swamikalude Gruhasta Shishyanma, Ananthakumara Press, Sivakasi </ref>{{full|date=January 2018}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Hindu dynasties]]
[[Category:Social groups of Kerala]]
[[Category:Noble titles]]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaimal, Thachudaya}}