Agamudaya Mudaliar

Agamudayar is a caste present across the length ‘and breadth of Tamilnadu and handful presence is found in Karanataka and Andhra Pradesh, many of the Agamudyar had even migrated to Sri Lanka during the Chola regime and are part of the great chola regiment, there are many sources of epigraphic evidence available in  Srilanka on their services and feudatory ship, Many of the Agamudiyar’s had served under many rulers of Srilanaka and epigraphic and literary evidence shows that these warriors are not mere soldiers they are a special soldiers and are allowed to wear a red turban to distinguish them from  other soldiers,

Though many believe that the Agamudyars originally from South Tamilnadu  and had migrated to the northern part of Tamilnadu during the late and 16^th
and 17^th century however there are evidence available that  Agamudyars were present in north Tamilnadu during the 13^th century itself, the following link has the evidence http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/article186077.ece
The Agamudya Mudaliar is actually a non vellala caste and in reality of a khystria race this could be a substantial truth because the very word Mudali itself mean a commander and the history of Agamudyar reveals the same.

The contemporary Agamudyar with Mudali title many of them are under illusion that they are Vellalar this is because the very “Title Mudaliar at present days denotes a Vellala, however the truth is such that none of the Vellalar caste recognize Agamudyar as a Vellala this is quite evident in their sites, presenting few vellala site and other links see what they say,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudaliar
https://mudaliarkitchen.wordpress.com/about-2/
www.saivaneri.org

all these sites invariably states that Agamudya mudaliar is a non vellala caste, 

There is a common confusion among the Agamudyar mudaliar is that they believe there exist two Agamudyar castes in Tamilnadu in the southern and Northern regions the former is from the Mukholathor division and the later is from Vellala division this assumption or belief seems to be incorrect, not only among the Agamudya mudlaiar even other castes in the Tamilnadu is inclined towards this view for them the Agamudyar with servai title is different and they form the Mukholathor coaltion, this confusion can be cleared out with some simple examples
Parental Title -  Name – Title

Here the parental titles = the title of their ancestors + Name + Title = assumed or assimilated title

In Vellore Vellapadi there is a street by name "Servai Maincka Mudaliar Street is found and in the same locality there is neighbourhood has the name "Servai Munusamy Mudalair Nagar" in this examples the name of the two persons bear the parental titles "Servai, even today there are few Agamudyar Mudaliar with parental titles could be seen in parts of Vellore and in North Arcot, there are even Agamudya Mudaliar with Vanniyar titles could be seen in these places
The above paragraph makes it clear that there is only one Agamudyar caste present in Tamilnadu with diverse titles, even the government of Tamilnadu issues only one Agamudyar caste certificate

The Agamudya Mudlaiar community had produced many philanthropist, scholars, feudatories  and famous personalities

Updates on Famous Agamudyar’s are most welcome.


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