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HISTORY OF UDAYARPALAYAM

PAALAYAKARARGAL OF UDAYARPALAYAM The town was named after the rulers “The Udayars”. Udayarpalayam was under the Zamindar rule nearly four Hundred years. When the Vijayanagara king Viranarasmha Raya (A.D.1509) was ruling, the Tamil Nadu was divided in to Gingee, Tanjore, Trichy, Mysore and Madurai petty kingdoms, Only during his regime, the poligar of Kachi Rangappa Udayar, was appointed to assist the Gingee king Udayagiri Ramabhadra Nayak, KALAKKA THOLA UDAYAR, otherwise called ‘Kaduvettigal’ that means one who destroyed the forest and converted them for cultivation. Their origin is not clearly known some one says, they were the descendants of pallavas. According to ancient Tamil Literature, ‘they were the descendents of Kurumbas, and they come from Tondaimandalam. Kalakka Thola Udayars are purely vanniyars but until today they speak Telugu. SINNA NALLAKALAKKA THOLA UDAYAR, He was the second son of kachi Rangappa Udayar, who succeeded his elder brother. Kachi periya kalakka thola udayar was of short region. He erected a temple Udaryarkoil, in memory of his elder brother, which later became kalakka thola puram. As per the guidelines of his teacher Namasivam, he had renovated the Chidambaram temple. After this, he had excavated a tank near cholapuram, in 1475 A.D. and erected a town around it. This place became the Udayarpalayam town. The legend of this place tells the importance of Siva, Rama, Angaraba, Brahma, Arjuna. Only on the banks of the temple tank ‘Kandi Thirtam’ there are mutts for the Thiruvavaduthurai and adhinams. During their time they constructed many temples, and made the donation of land and other things to the temple, they excavated a lot of lakes for irrigation facilities, and did many welfare activities in this region. During the English rule, only 56 villages remained under their reign. The zaminadiri system existed still 1956, Chinnanalla Udayar, was the last Zamindar, who ruled till 1956.Even now their successors are found in the town. The town has a large palace and a temple and temple tank within its premises.