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Kondaikatti Velaalar or Thondaimandala Mudaliar[a] is a Tamil[b] caste in south India. Historically, they were a caste of non-cultivating land-holders and some of them were administrators under various south Indian dynasties.[c][d][e] Their original homeland was Thondaimandalam and from there they spread to other areas in south India and northeastern parts of Sri Lanka.[f][5] Since they historically used the Mudaliar title, they are sometimes referred to as Thondaimandala Mudaliar.[1] However, Kathleen Gough considers them to be a separate subcaste of the Thondaimandala Mudali,[7] as does Susan Neild.[8]
- ^ a b Indian Council of Agricultural Research, p. 120.
- ^ Irschick (1994), p. 34.
- ^ Chanana & Krishna Raj (1989), p. 92.
- ^ Mariola Offredi (1992), p. 284.
- ^ a b Pillay & Pillay (1977), pp. 23–24.
- ^ Venkatasubramanian (1993), p. 105.
- ^ Gough, Kathleen (1982). Rural Society in South East Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-52104-019-8.
- ^ Neild, Susan M. (1979). "Colonial Urbanism: The Development of Madras City in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries". Modern Asian Studies. 13 (2): 217–246. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00008301. JSTOR 312124. S2CID 144309252.
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