Agastheeswaram Nadans - The Nadars with Fort

Agastheeswaram Nadans 


Agastheeswaram is a town in Kanniyakumari district. A Nadar Family ruled Agastheeswaram and they had a fort and were allowed to have 100 soldiers by Travancore Samasthanam.

During the “Upper cloth controversy” instead of supporting their own caste men, they supported the upper class men and claimed that only their (Agastheeswaram Nadars) women only have the right to wear an upper cloth and not the other Nadars. 


In Travancore state manual, there is a note of  Agastheeswaram Nadars as follows 


"This is also the headquarters of the Shanar tribe, where their Nadan or chieftain resides, who was formerly allowed the privileges of having a fort, of riding in a palanquin and of retaining a hundred armed attendants."

2 comments:

  1. Anyone knows about a man called Pandari Nadar who lived in Agastheeswarm in 1830s?

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  2. "A Nadar Family ruled Agastheeswaram " What is the name of the head man? Thanks

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