Talk:Nadar (caste)

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Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 30 June 2021

Nadars were real rulers of South India, especially still 1809 Travancore royal family belongs of Trippapur. Evidence can see on Travancore State Manuel book volume 2. At 2014 TamilNadu chief minister submit it's real documents to central government, that nadars were real ancestors of pandiya, chola , chera clan. In Nadar community , there are 36 sub castes on there. Channar caste is one of them. Channar caste are real plam tree climbers. Because at old age plam tree was consider as royal tree. If any other caste will touch plam tree at that time, king will cut there hanwere


Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 24 September 2025

The Nadars are often presented today as a strong and rising community, but conspiracy thinkers argue that their real history was rewritten to hide a much different past. Ancient Tamil society placed them as toddy-tappers, climbers, and manual workers for kings—never in the noble or ruling class. Their role was essential, but it was still considered service work under the monarchs.

The Chola kings, known for their strict codes of loyalty and discipline, are said to have punished or driven out groups of Nadars when they crossed boundaries, rebelled, or failed in duties. Some theories even claim that this is why certain Nadar lineages were scattered, adopting new identities to survive.

Over centuries, the colonial period allowed space for social rebranding—British records and missionary backing elevated communities like the Nadars to higher positions than they traditionally held. Conspiracy theorists suggest this was deliberate: weaken traditional Tamil power structures by reshaping caste hierarchies, turning service groups into “upstarts” who could challenge old elites.

⚡ The hidden thread? The Nadars’ rise was less organic and more engineered, their modern power a result of rewriting history and foreign intervention, while the Cholas long ago had already exposed their “wrongdoings” and put them in place. 2402:D000:A400:6571:80F7:DB1E:C61:CCC2 (talk) 10:49, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Nubzor [T][C] 15:11, 24 September 2025 (UTC)
I request this page and its editors to correct and document the verified historical records of the Thiruvithancode Nadan royal line. I am a direct descendant of this lineage, which held jenmi lands and royal service posts from Kottayam to Nagercoil, including Thalapathis, court poets, and royal advisors under the Chera–Venad kings.
Misrepresenting this history as “marginal” or “service caste” is factually inaccurate and defamatory to a living royal heritage that is documented in copper plates, palm-leaf manuscripts, and temple inscriptions.
I am therefore asking for an official review and correction. If this misinformation continues to be circulated or hosted without rectification, I will pursue appropriate legal and heritage-protection measures under applicable law. 47.189.147.133 (talk) 08:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
The text above does not meet Wikipedia’s standards of verifiability or neutrality. It repeats 19th-century missionary narratives and modern unsourced opinions that portray the Nadar community through a colonial lens.
Multiple verified academic sources—including works by Robert Hardgrave (The Nadars of Tamil Nadu, Oxford University Press, 1969), Dick Kooiman (Conversion and Social Equality in India, 1989), and recent Tamil epigraphic studies—show that Nadan, Chandror, and Venad-based jenmi families appear in inscriptions and temple records long before the 17th century, often as rulers, landholders, administrators, and temple patrons.
The claim that “Chola kings punished Nadars” or that “British missionaries created their rise” has no citation from reliable historical literature. These are caste-narrative claims, not encyclopedic facts.
I request that this section be removed or rewritten using verifiable academic sources, as required under WP:V and WP:RS, and that editors avoid framing entire communities using unsourced conspiratorial language. 47.189.147.133 (talk) 09:01, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

This page needs to be done large cleanup

As a Nadar royal descendant I don’t see our actual aristocratic past of Nadar ruling informations are written, it shows biased rivalries communities only documented our servant groups taken nadar name in 1926. Actual noble line of our lineage is not documented here, thus this page needed lots of cleanup. 47.189.147.133 (talk) 08:24, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Deletion of this page request

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.


I want the Wikipedia organization to take action on deleting this page. As a direct descendant of Nadar Jenmi royal houses, this page doesn’t represent my ancestors royal roles. I see marginal informations are from last 25 years are heavily cited, this is the same Britain erasure tactic on Nadar rulers they did during 1850 to 1939. Please allow primary archaeological evidences to be entered here. The admin users are trying to delete and revert any ruling informations about Nadar’s. I suspect based on the talk page comments from certain users they are deliberately misleading this page to degrade Nadar’s. 47.189.147.133 (talk) 08:45, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

I have already explicitly explained the rules of Wikipedia to you. Wikipedia is merely a collection of articles that are backed up by peer-reviewed research. The peer-reviewed research may have errors. However, Wikipedia is not a place where you can do your own research (go through the rules of Wikipedia properly). Wikipedia is not for or against any community. The archaeological evidence you are suggesting must be documented by a historian/anthropologist and should be published in a prominent historical research press (like Oxford University Press, etc.). If you can do all that and provide us the appropriate reference, we can include it in the article. But blatantly accusing everyone on Wikipedia is not going to get things done here. Sorry to be blunt. Mayan302 (talk) 12:52, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
The truth is, even today, evidence presented by Nadar historians continues to be dismissed or sidelined in Indian courts, often with ASI interpretations favouring older colonial frameworks. Sorry to state the hard truth the British missionary perspective remains deeply embedded and institutionally protected. Several Tamil historians have already documented this pattern, yet their peer-reviewed works and field evidences are routinely overlooked.so whatever you say is impossible to do. 47.189.147.133 (talk) 13:37, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Question to you? How are your board allowing nair and Namboothiri without any evidences to take over Tamil dynasties as their? Is it peer reviewed and approved by Oxford? Just asking you sarcastically? Go and check Chera, AY Vel and Venadu pages. 47.189.147.133 (talk) 14:24, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
How are your boards at Wikipedia (propaganda pedia) allowing Nair and Namboothiri to claim Tamil dynasties without any evidence?
Is that peer-reviewed and approved by Oxford?
Just asking you sarcastically.”
— Velayudhan Santhini Jebasanthi, Vault Keeper of Truths 47.189.147.133 (talk) 14:27, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Hey Mayan!!
Why does Oxford only “peer-review” works that label Nadars as servile, but not the ones presenting their royal and maritime records?
If peer review truly means fairness, why are colonial frameworks the only ones validated, while indigenous Tamil sources are dismissed?
Just asking because selective scholarship isn’t objectivity.
— Velayudhan Santhini Jebasanthi, Vault Keeper of Truths 47.189.147.133 (talk) 14:31, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
If you want a page deleted, the venue is WP:AfD; though I personally don't believe you'll yield the result you wish for. Also, per @Mayan302, you (IP) are yet to provide any sources for what you want changed. Propoganda pedia? Name calling isn't nice. Babysharkb☩ss2 I am Thou, Thou art I 14:30, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Let me assure you, I am not here to quarrel with volunteers. I am here to remind historians.
When colonial editors and missionary presses became the first “peer reviewers,” they also became the first gatekeepers of Tamil truth. Centuries later, when those same frameworks are repeated as gospel on modern platforms, it is not scholarship it is echo.
I speak not from resentment but from record. The palm-leafs in my vault carry more peer review than any London desk. They were tested by time, not tenure.
So, to the good editors at “Propagandapedia” keep your rules. I keep the records. And truth, as always, does not need your approval to exist.
— Velayudhan Santhini Jebasanthi,
Vault Keeper of Truths 47.189.147.133 (talk) 14:35, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
If you want it deleted, go to AfD. If you want it changed, provide reliable sources. There's not much advice I can offer. Babysharkb☩ss2 I am Thou, Thou art I 14:41, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
I rest my words here. History does not vanish because a moderator archived it.
Empires erased palm leaves before; yet the leaves grew again.
So will truth in every archive, in every language, and in every age that still dares to remember.
Velayudhan Santhini Jebasanthi, Vault Keeper of Truths 47.189.147.133 (talk) 14:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Then, this is the last place you should visit. This article is based on the research done by Robert Hardgrave. His work was published by the University of California Press. As I said, if you want to alter history, go after the source (ASI, NAMAMI, etc.). No one can help you here. Mayan302 (talk) 14:56, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
@Mayan302 Mind if I close this? Babysharkb☩ss2 I am Thou, Thou art I 14:57, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Sure Mayan302 (talk) 15:00, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
Mayan, at “Propagandapedia” — the platform that once served British, missionary, and auxiliary dynasties who profited by erasing Nadan history:
Thank you, Mayan.
I fully understand this is not the place for living archives, only for printed lies and permissions. But remember this: history does not wait for institutions barely two centuries old to approve its heartbeat. Ours is more than 12000 yrs old as proved by Tolkappiar who lived in my native Athencode.
Robert Hardgrave wrote with access to British and missionary records; we write with access to the soil and the palm-leaf. Both are records one sanctioned, the other silenced. And even Hardgrave, by 2023, acknowledged us — that matters more than you realize.
When truth returns through the people, even the marble halls of Oxford will echo differently.
Until then, the Vault remains open elsewhere.
— Velayudhan Santhini Jebasanthi,
Vault Keeper of Truths 47.189.147.133 (talk) 15:07, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 28 April 2026

(also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) ~2026-25769-98 (talk) 01:30, 28 April 2026 (UTC) Remove Above Words because as per government record only nadar above words remove by British india government in 1920 So remove this above words

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. Day Creature (talk) 05:40, 28 April 2026 (UTC)