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Download Solution PDFName the Nayak who inaugurated the kingdom of Ramnad.
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Download Solution PDFCorrect Answer Muthu KrishnappaKey Points
- The Madurai Nayak Muthu Krishnappa inaugurated the kingdom of Ramnad in the 17th century.
- The inhabitants with martial tradition had served as soldiers under Pandyan, Chola, and Vijayanagar kings.
- It was spread into Tirunelveli and other southern parts of Tamil country.
- They also served in the armies of Nayak rulers and were traditional Kavalkarars.
- Their responsibility was to protect the village, temple, and other administrative bodies.
- The Temple at Rameswaram was under the protection of a kaval chief.
- They assumed the title of Udaiyan Sethupati.
- It means the Chief who was lord of bridge or causeway, as he controlled the passage between Rameswaram and Ceylon.
- Pudukottai was a tiny principality situated between the Nayak kingdoms of Thanjavur and Madurai.
- It constituted a buffer between the Chola kingdom and the Pandyas.
- The inhabitants of Ramanathapuram, Pudukottai also had inhabitants belonging to a martial tradition.
- Hence their region could attain the status of a “little kingdom” under Tondaimans.
- The Tondaimans served the great royal households of Raja Sethupathi and Nayak kings of Madurai and Thanjavur.
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