தென்பாண்டி நாட்டு நாடான்கள் பற்றிய ஆங்கிலேயர் காலத்து குறிப்பு!

தென்பாண்டி நாட்டு நாடான்கள் பற்றிய ஆங்கிலேயர் காலத்து குறிப்பு!

Nadan is the usual caste title; two others, Mukkundan The and Servai, are also found. Mukkundan, which seems originally to have implied a local headmanship, is now falling into disuse and conveys no particular meaning. Servai is the title borne by the Shanans of Kadaiyam and Kalakkad, in both of which places the hereditary kudikaval is in the hands of this caste; and it is possible that they owe the appellation to their position. In Kadaiyam the story is told that, when one of the old native renters, according to the custom of those potentates, ordered the Sivagiri zamindar to grovel before him in the mud specially prepared for the pur- pose, the zamindar refused to do so; the Shanans were told to

The title is also used by some Maravans.

TINNEVELLY

CHAP. III. cut his head off and did so. So they earned the hor SHANANS, title of Servai, or Servaikaran. Elsewhere the title com