Agamudayar

Agamudayar (otherwise Agamudaiyar, Akamudayar, Agamudayan) are a Tamil community found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.[2] According to the anthropologist Zoe E Headley, the three communities are the "numerically dominant rural backward castes of the southern districts of Tamil Nadu".[3]

For Agamudaya Mudaliars of Northern Tamil Nadu, see Thuluva Vellala.
Agamudayar
Agamudaiyar cultivators, c. 1909
JātiMukkulathor
ReligionsHinduism
LanguagesTamil
EthnicityTamils
Population1981-1982: 5 per cent of the Other Backwards Class population of Tamil Nadu[1]

Etymology

The term Agamudayar is a Tamil word meaning "Householder" or "Landholder".[4]

Demographics

They are concentrated in Chennai, Sivagangai, Ramanathapuram, Thanjavur, Madurai, Tirunelveli and Pudukkottai districts.

See Also

References
  1. Radhakrishnan, P. (10 June 1989). "Ambasankar Commission and Backward Classes". Economic and Political Weekly. 24 (23): 1265–1268. JSTOR 4394921.
  2. Das, Biswajit; Majhi, Debendra Prasad (12 July 2021). Caste, Communication and Power. SAGE Publishing India. ISBN 978-93-91370-90-9.
  3. Headley, Zoe E. (2011). "Caste and Collective Memory in South Asia". In Clark-Decès, Isabelle (ed.). A Companion to the Anthropology of India. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 1982, 1985. ISBN 978-1-44439-058-2.
  4. Madras (India : State); B. S. Baliga (1967). Madras District Gazetteers: Salem. by Ramaswami, A. Printed by the Superintendent, Govt. Press. p. 124.

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