Veerapandiya Kattabomman

Veerapandiya Kattabomman[1] was an 18th-century

Veerapandiya
Palayakarrar and king of Panchalankurichi[2][3] in Tamil Nadu,
Kattabomman
India. He fought British East India Company He was captured by
the British with the help of the ruler of the kingdom of Pudukottai, Palaiyakkarar of Tenkasi
Vijaya Raghunatha Tondaiman, and at the age of 39 he was
hanged at Kayathar on 16 October 1799.[4]

Early life
Kattabomman hail from present day panchalankurichi .his father
aadhi kattabomban was minister in court of jagaveera
kattabomman a descendent in the pandiyan line, Jagveera
Pandiyan was issueless and declared Kattabomman as his
successor.They had previously had some prominence in the
imperial court and may have been adept at farming in dry
conditions, although it is also possible that they had no choice but
to settle where they did because the other significant community of
Tirunelveli – the Maravars – had already occupied the more
favourable areas. He initially evaded tax that the British demanded
and ignored repeated summons to meet collector Jackson. Later Veerapandiya Kattabomman on a
his  meeting with Jackson ended up into a Physical combat in 1999 stamp
which Deputy Commandant of the Company’s forces, Clarke was Reign Ended 16 October 1799
slain.Kattabomman was a member of the Rajakambalam Nayakkar Born January 1760
caste who are shepherds, with the other two Vadugan communities
Panchalankurichi
being the Kammavars and the Reddies.[5]
(in present-day
Thoothukudi District,
Legacy Tamil Nadu, India)
Died 16 October 1799
The historian Susan Bayly says that
(aged 39)
Kattabomman is considered a Robin Hood-
Kayatharu, (now in
like figure in local folklore and is the subject
of several traditional narrative ballads in the Thoothukudi District,
kummi verse form. The site of his execution at Tamil Nadu, India)
Kayathar has become a "powerful local Spouse Jakkammal
shrine" and at one time sheep were sacrificed
Father Jagaveera Kattabomman
Kattabomman there.[6] The Government of Tamil Nadu
memorial at maintains a memorial at Kayathar and the Mother Arumugathammal
Kayathar remnants of the old fort at Panchalankurichi is
protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.[7][8] In 2006, the Tirunelveli district
administration organised a festival at Panchalankurichi on his birth anniversary.[9]

The Tamil-language film Veerapandiya Kattabomman, starring Sivaji Ganesan, is based on his life.[10]
To commemorate the bicentenary of Kattabomman's hanging, the Government of India released a postal
stamp in his honour on 16 October 1999.[11] The Indian Navy communications centre at Vijayanarayanam
is named INS Kattabomman.[12]

See also
Puli Thevar
Dheeran Chinnamalai
Maruthu Pandiyar
Veeran Sundaralingam
Oomaithurai, Veerapandiya Kattabomman's younger brother
Rani Velu Nachiar

Further reading
Sivagnanam, M. P. (1940). Veerapandiya Kattabomman.
Karunakarapandian, K. (2011). "A Political History of Ettayapuram of Thirunelvelli District,
Tamil Nadu" (https://books.google.com/books?id=crxUQR_qBXYC&pg=PA369). In
Ganeshram, S.; Bhavani, C. (eds.). History of People and Their Environs: Essays in Honour
of Prof. B.S. Chandrababu. Bharathi Puthakalayam. ISBN 978-9-38032-591-0.
Mukund, Kanakalatha (2005). The View from Below: Indigenous Society, Temples, and the
Early Colonial State in Tamilnadu, 1700–1835 (https://books.google.com/books?id=5BMljBx
JXtoC&pg=PA170). Orient Blackswan. ISBN 978-8-12502-800-0.

References
1. Narwekar, Sanjit (1994). Directory of Indian film-makers and films (https://books.google.com/
books?id=UYUjAQAAIAAJ&q=veerapandiya+katta+brahmana). ISBN 9780948911408.;
"Glimpse into history" (http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/gli
mpse-into-history/article2272718.ece). The Hindu. 20 July 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2018.;
"Metro Plus Vijayawada" (http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2005/01/22/stories/200501
2202470100.htm). The Hindu. 22 January 2005. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
2. "The Valour" (https://books.google.com/books?id=XJ8rDwAAQBAJ&dq=Veerapandiya+Katt
abomman&pg=PA123). Educreation Publishing. 11 July 2017. p. 117.
3. "Down the Memory Lane" (https://books.google.com/books?id=9FfSDwAAQBAJ&dq=Veera
pandiya+Kattabomman&pg=PT94). Notion Press. 2020. p. All.
4. Yang, Anand A. (November 2007). "Bandits and Kings: Moral Authority and Resistance in
Early Colonial India". The Journal of Asian Studies. 66 (4): 881–896.
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Cambridge University Press. pp. 60–70, 174. ISBN 0-521-32604-4.
6. Bayly, Susan (1989). Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian
society, 1700–1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 207. ISBN 978-0-521-37201-5.
7. "Tourism in Thoothukudi district" (https://www.thoothukudi.tn.nic.in/upinfo/tourism/Panchalan
kurichi.html). Government of Tamil Nadu.
8. "Jayalalithaa inaugurates memorial for Veerapandia Kattaboman" (http://www.thehindu.com/
news/national/tamil-nadu/jayalalithaa-inaugurates-memorial-for-freedom-fighter-veerapandi
a-kattaboman/article7332931.ece). The Hindu. 19 June 2015.
 9. "Kattabomman festival celebrated" (http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/14/stories/200605141025
0300.htm). The Hindu. 14 May 2006. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
10. Guy, Randor (9 May 2015). "Veera Pandya Kattabomman 1959" (http://www.thehindu.com/fe
atures/cinema/veera-pandya-kattabomman-1959/article7188251.ece). The Hindu. Retrieved
20 February 2017.
11. "Tamilnadu postal circle — stamps" (http://www.tamilnadupost.nic.in/phil/statmps_f.htm).
Tamil Nadu post.
12. "INS Kattabomman" (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/ins-kattabomman.ht
m). Global security.

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