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The 'Vaduga' or 'Vadugar', comprise three distinct [[Telugu language|Telugu-speaking]] [[Caste system in India|caste]]-based communities of what is now the state of [[Tamil Nadu]] in India. They are families who moved south to the region from north [[Madras presidency]] following the collapse of the [[Vijayanagara Empire]] after 1565, settling in contiguous areas of [[Tirunelveli district|Tirunelveli]], [[Madurai district|Madurai]]. Their original caste identities were as [[Balija]], [[Thottiya Kambala Kapu Nayunuvaru|Kapu Naidu]] and [[Kamma (caste)|Kammavars]] and they were once been prominent in the Vijayanagara imperial court.<ref name="dirks">{{cite book |title=The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom |first=Nicholas B. |last=Dirks |authorlink=Nicholas Dirks |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1987 |isbn=0-521-32604-4 |pages=60-70, 174}}</ref>

The Vatuka engaged in agriculture in the arid area of Tirunelveli, perhaps because they had experience of cultivating such land but perhaps also because the other dominant group in the area - the [[Maravar]]s a Tamizh Speaking Tamizh Nationality Clan- had already Soil of Son's in the more fertile places. People such as [[Veerapandiya Kattabomman]], [[Tirumala Nayaka]], Maharaani Mangammal, Virupatchi Gopala Naicker are some historical leaders and kings of Tamil Nadu Nayakar Kingdoms.<ref name="dirks"/>

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[[Category:Social groups of Tamil Nadu]]

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