{"id":4721,"date":"2023-01-18T06:05:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T00:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:31:43","slug":"who-are-nattukotai-nagarathas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-nattukotai-nagarathas\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Nattukotai Nagarathas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Nattukotai Nagarathas:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Also called Nattukottai Chettiars, Nagarathas are a people of <strong>Indian origin, well known for their financial dealings <\/strong>and hospitality.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are f<strong>ollowers of the Hindu religion<\/strong> and worship the <strong>Shiva and Muruga deities<\/strong> of the Hindu faith.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>belong to a very prolific Business Community<\/strong>, who in olden days<strong> moved out of India to foreign lands<\/strong> like Burma, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Malaysia, Singapore &amp; Vietnam (Saigon) .<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>hail from a place called Chettinad<\/strong>, an area situated in the South-Eastern region of Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>considered the pioneers of modern banking.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>introduced concepts like pattru (debit), varavu (credit), selavu (expenditure), laabam (profit) and nashtam (loss)<\/strong>. These are all <strong>collectively known as iynthogai (trial balance)<\/strong> &#8211; a unified document which reflects the current financial status of the business at any given time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>They created 96 villages and built 9 temples with each family owing allegiance to a single temple only.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Nagarathars <strong>were the primary providers of capital to Burmese cultivators <\/strong>through much of the colonial period.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Chettinad region:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost centrally located in the southern Indian state of Tamil N\u0101du, Chettinad is a culturally and historically important region <strong>famous for its unique cuisine, agriculture and architecture.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The origin of Chettinad <strong>begins in the 13th century<\/strong> when the Nattukottai Chettiars migrated to Karaikudi.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>new settlement eventually became the Chettinad region (Land of the Chettiars)<\/strong> of 96 villages (in 1947,) but now due to the movement of people out of certain villages, has diminished to about 75 villages.<\/li>\n<li>Chettinad has <strong>well planned towns provided with well defined roadways, reservoirs to store and supply water to the town, a planned market place, temples <\/strong>and everything, providing the basic needs of people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1<strong>)<\/strong>\u00a0What is Pongal?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a harvest festival celebrated by the Tamil community. It is a celebration to thank the Sun, Mother Nature and the various farm animals that help to contribute to a bountiful harvest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Madurai\/sevvai-pongal-attracts-hundreds-of-nagarathars-from-across-globe\/article66388134.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Sevvai Pongal attracts hundreds of Nagarathars from across globe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nagarathas are a people of Indian origin, well known for their financial dealings and hospitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}