Chettiar
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Tamil, Telugu | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism |
Chettiar is a title used by various mercantile, agricultural and land owning castes in South India, especially in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.[1][2]
Social status
The Nattukottai Chettiar are elite bankers.[3]
Castes using the Chettiar title
- Agaram Vellan Chettiar
- Arya Vaishya
- Ayira Vaisyar
- Beri Chettiar
- Devanga Chettiar
- Elur Chetty
- Kongu Chettiar
- Kasukarar
- Nagarathar
- Padmashali
- Pattariyar
- Saliya
- Senaithalaivar
- Sozhia Chettiar
- Twenty four Manai Telugu Chettiars
- Vaniya Chettiar
- Vellan Chettiar
- Vallanattu chettiar
- Sathu Chettiar
- Pannirendu Manai Chettiar
See also
References
- ^ "Chettiar Band, AVM To FM". http://www.outlookindia.com/. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
{{cite web}}: External link in|website= - ^ "Chettiars reign where wealth meets godliness". timesofindia-economictimes. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
- ^ Jaffrelot, Christophe; Kumar, Sanjay (4 May 2012). Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies. Routledge. ISBN 9781136516610.
Further reading
- Christine Dobson, Asian Entrepreneurial Minorities, Curzon Press UK, 1996. (A chapter in the book is devoted to the Chettiars who set up businesses in Burma.)
- Rajeswary Brown (1993) "Chettiar capital and Southeast Asian credit networks in the inter-war period". In G. Austin and K. Sugihara, eds. Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960. (New York: St. Martin's Press).
- Kudaisya, Medha M. (2009). "Marwari and Chettiar Merchants. 1850s-1950s: Comparative Trajectories". In Kudaisya, Medha M.; Ng, Chin-Keong (eds.). Chinese and Indian Business: Historical Antecedents. Leiden: BRILL. ISBN 9789004172791.
- David Rudner (1989) Banker's Trust and the Culture of Banking among the Nattukottai Chettiars of Colonial South India. Modern Asian Studies 23 (3), 417-458.
- Heiko Schrader (1996) Chettiar Finance in Colonial Asia. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 121, 101-126.