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{{About|2=the 1959 film|3=Veerapandiya Kattabomman (film)|4=the biography|5=Veerapandiya Kattabomman (book)}}{{Redirect|Kattabomman}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox monarch
| name =Kattabomman Naiyakar
| title = [[Palaiyakkarar]] of Tenkasi
| image = Veerapandiya Kattabomman 1999 stamp of India.jpg
| caption = Veerapandiya Kattabomman on a 1999 stamp
| reign = Ended 16 October 1799
| dynasty =
| successor = [[British Rule]]
| father = Jagaveera Kattabomman{{cn|date=March 2018}}
| mother = Arumugathammal{{cn|date=March 2018}}
| spouse = Jakkammal{{cn|date=March 2018}}
| birth_date = 3 January 1760
| birth_place = [[Panchalankurichi]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1799|10|16|1760|1|3}}
| death_place = [[Kayathar]], India
| date of burial =
| place of burial =
}}

'''Veerapandiya Kattabomman'''<ref>{{cite book|last=Narwekar|first=Sanjit |title= Directory of Indian film-makers and films| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYUjAQAAIAAJ&q=veerapandiya+katta+brahmana|isbn=9780948911408 |year=1994 }}; {{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/glimpse-into-history/article2272718.ece|title= Glimpse into history|date=20 July 2011|access-date=5 March 2018|work=The Hindu}}; {{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2005/01/22/stories/2005012202470100.htm|title=Metro Plus Vijayawada|work=The Hindu |date = 22 January 2005| access-date=5 March 2018}}</ref> was an 18th-century Tamil [[Palayakarrar]] and [[chieftain]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], India. He refused to accept the sovereignty of the [[British East India Company]] and waged a [[Polygar War|war]] against them. He was captured by the British with the help of the ruler of the [[pudukkottai state|kingdom of Pudukottai]], [[Vijaya Raghunatha Tondaiman]], and at the age of 39 he was hanged at [[Kayathar]] on 16 October 1799.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yang|first=Anand A.|title=Bandits and Kings: Moral Authority and Resistance in Early Colonial India |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=66 |issue=4 |date=November 2007 |pages=881–896 |doi=10.1017/S0021911807001234|jstor=20203235}}</ref>

He was a [[Vatuka]] (northerner), a loose term for a group of [[Telugu language|Telugu]]-speaking [[Caste system in India|castes]] which includes families who claim to have moved south to settle in the arid [[Tirunelveli district|Tirunelveli]] region after the collapse of the Nayaka-controlled [[Vijayanagara Empire]] in 1565. They had previously had some prominence in the imperial court and may have been adept at farming in dry conditions, although it is also possible that they had no choice but to settle where they did because the other significant community of Tirunelveli – the [[Maravar]]s – had already occupied the more favourable areas. Kattabomman was a member of the [[Rajakambalam Nayakkar]]caste, with the other two Vadugan communities being the [[Kamma (caste)|Kammavar]]s and the [[Reddy|Reddies]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom |first=Nicholas B. |last=Dirks |author-link=Nicholas Dirks |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1987 |isbn=0-521-32604-4 |pages=60–70, 174}}</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:Kattapomman Memorial.JPG|thumb|left|100px|Kattabomman memorial at [[Kayathar]]]]
The historian [[Susan Bayly]] says that Kattabomman is considered a [[Robin Hood]]-like figure in local folklore and is the subject of several traditional narrative ballads in the [[kummi]] verse form. The site of his execution at Kayathar has become a "powerful local shrine" and at one time sheep were sacrificed there.<ref>{{cite book |title=Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian society, 1700–1900 |first=Susan |last=Bayly |author-link=Susan Bayly |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-521-37201-5 |page=207}}</ref> The [[Government of Tamil Nadu]] maintains a memorial at Kayathar and the remnants of the old fort at Panchalankurichi is protected by the [[Archaeological Survey of India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thoothukudi.tn.nic.in/upinfo/tourism/Panchalankurichi.html|title=Tourism in Thoothukudi district|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/jayalalithaa-inaugurates-memorial-for-freedom-fighter-veerapandia-kattaboman/article7332931.ece|title=Jayalalithaa inaugurates memorial for Veerapandia Kattaboman|work=[[The Hindu]]|date=19 June 2015}}</ref> In 2006, the [[Tirunelveli district]] administration organised a festival at Panchalankurichi on his birth anniversary.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/14/stories/2006051410250300.htm|title=Kattabomman festival celebrated|work=The Hindu|date=14 May 2006 |access-date=4 March 2018}}</ref>

The [[Tamil-language]] film ''[[Veerapandiya Kattabomman (film)|Veerapandiya Kattabomman]]'', starring [[Sivaji Ganesan]], is based on his life.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/veera-pandya-kattabomman-1959/article7188251.ece |work=The Hindu |title=Veera Pandya Kattabomman 1959 |date=9 May 2015 |first=Randor |last=Guy |access-date=20 February 2017}}</ref>

To commemorate the bicentenary of Kattabomman’s hanging, the [[Government of India]] released a [[postal stamp]] in his honour on 16 October 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tamilnadupost.nic.in/phil/statmps_f.htm|title=Tamilnadu postal circle — stamps|publisher=Tamil Nadu post}}</ref> The [[Indian Navy]] communications centre at [[Vijayanarayanam]] is named ''[[INS Kattabomman]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/ins-kattabomman.htm|publisher=Global security|title=INS Kattabomman}}</ref>

== Controversies ==
Tamil poet [[Kannadasan]] wrote a script about Kattabomman which was adapted into ''Sivagangai Seemai''. According to him [[Maruthu Pandiyar]]s were the real freedom fighters, not Kattabomman. Kannadasan's assertion was supported by writer [[Tamilvanan]], who criticised Kattabomman's glorification.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XgrKSAAACAAJ|title=Cinemas of South India: Culture, Resistance, Ideology|last1=C|first1=Sowmya Dechamma C.|last2=Dechamma|first2=Sowmya|last3=Prakash|first3=Elavarthi Sathya|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780198067955|language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Puli Thevar]]
*[[Dheeran Chinnamalai]]
*[[Maruthu Pandiyar]]
*[[Veeran Sundaralingam]]
*[[Oomaithurai]], Veerapandiya Kattabomman's younger brother
*[[Rani Velu Nachiar]]
==Further reading==

* {{Cite book|last=Sivagnanam|first=M. P.|title=[[Veerapandiya Kattabomman (book)|Veerapandiya Kattabomman]]|year=1940|author-link=M. P. Sivagnanam}}
* {{cite book|last=Karunakarapandian|first=K.|title=History of People and Their Environs: Essays in Honour of Prof. B.S. Chandrababu|publisher=Bharathi Puthakalayam|year=2011|isbn=978-9-38032-591-0|editor1-last=Ganeshram|editor1-first=S.|chapter=A Political History of Ettayapuram of Thirunelvelli District, Tamil Nadu|editor2-last=Bhavani|editor2-first=C.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=crxUQR_qBXYC&pg=PA369}}
* {{cite book|last=Mukund|first=Kanakalatha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5BMljBxJXtoC&pg=PA170|title=The View from Below: Indigenous Society, Temples, and the Early Colonial State in Tamilnadu, 1700–1835|publisher=Orient Blackswan|year=2005|isbn=978-8-12502-800-0}}

==References==
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