Udayar (caste)
The Udayar is a title used by multiple caste in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.[1] The main caste using udayar title is malayaman, nathaman castes belongs to parkavakulam community of tamilnadu.Other caste like thuluva vellalar, konar, naidu using udayar title at some surroundings.
| Udayar | |
|---|---|
| Religions | Hinduism, Christianity |
| Languages | Tamil |
| Country | India |
| Populated states | Tamil Nadu |
| Related groups | Tamil people |
EtymologyEdit
The word Udayar in Tamil means Lord or Possessor as in Possessor of land or kingdom.[citation needed]
Present statusEdit
According to Selva Raj, the Udayar are land owning agriculturists in Tamil Nadu. Udayar means landlord, together with the Kallar & Maravar castes, Udayar are quite dominant in the region variously known as Ramnad and the Maravar country.[2]
ReligionEdit
In Ramnad and the nearby areas of Pudukottai, Madurai, Salem, Namakkal, Tanjore and Trichy, they and their two fellow Maravar caste groups are prominent in their cult worship of the shrine at Oriyur that commemorates John de Britto, a 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr. Raj says, "A notable feature of the Britto cult is that it is centered around caste identities rather than religious affiliation", and thus members of the caste-group, irrespective of their religious affiliation regard Britto as their clan-deity.[3]
Some Udayars are Roman Catholic Christians.[4][3]
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "List of Backward Classes Approved".
- ↑ Raj, Selva J. (2002). "Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto". In Raj, Selva J.; Dempsey, Corinne G. (eds.). Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines. SUNY Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780791455197. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Raj, Selva J. (2002). "Transgressing Boundaries, Transcending Turner: The Pilgrimage Tradition at the Shrine of St. John de Britto". In Raj, Selva J.; Dempsey, Corinne G. (eds.). Popular Christianity in India: Riting Between the Lines. SUNY Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-79145-519-7.
- ↑ Palanithurai, Ganapathy; Ragupathy, Varadarajan (2008). Communities Panchayats and Governance at Grassroots. Concept Publishing Company. p. 138. ISBN 9788180695636. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
Further readingEdit
- Burkhart, Geoffrey (June 1972). "Ranges of Endogamy in a Tamil Group". Indian Anthropologist. 2 (1): 1–6. JSTOR 41919203.
- Burkhart, Geoffrey (January 1976). "On the absence of descent groups among some Udayars of South India". Contributions to Indian Sociology. 10 (1): 31–61. doi:10.1177/006996677601000102. S2CID 143260084.