The Thanjavur Nayak kingdom or Thanjavur Nayak dynasty were the rulers of kingdom of Tamil Nadu in the 16th and 17th cen

The Thanjavur Nayak kingdom or Thanjavur Nayak dynasty were the rulers of kingdom of Tamil Nadu in the 16th and 17th centuries. The Nayaks of the social group, were originally appointed as provincial governors by the in the 15th century, who divided the Tamil country into three Nayakships viz., Madurai, Tanjore and Gingee. In the mid 16th century they became an independent kingdom, although they continued their alliance with the Vijayanagara Empire. The Thanjavur Nayaks were notable for their patronage of literature and the arts.

තන්ජාවූර් නායක් රාජවංශය

1532–1673

Approximate extent of the Thanjavur Nayak Kingdom, c. 1572

අගනුවර

පොදු භාෂා(ව)

Tamil,

ආගම

Hinduism

රජය

King

ඉතිහාසය

• Established

1532

• අහෝසි කළේ

1673

Preceded by

Succeeded by

	චෝළ අධිරාජ්‍යය
	විජයනගර අධිරාජ්‍යය


බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය ඉන්දියාව

References

Callā, Rādhākr̥ṣṇaśarma (2007). Landmarks in Telugu Literature (ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින්). Lakshminarayana Granthamala.
Nayaks of Tanjore.
Rao, Shulman & Subrahmanyam, Symbols of Substance 1992, p. 10: "Originally part of the great Telugu migrations southward into the Tamil country in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Balija merchant- warriors reveal the rise of hitherto marginal, and only recently politicized.. These mobile, aggressive, Telugu-speaking warriors....helped to build the Nāyaka state-system and to impregnate it with their particular cultural vision; strong surviving traditions; supported by contemporary evidence, assert Balija origins and / or marital connections for the major Nāyaka dynasties in the Tamil country quite apart from the well-known Balija role in restructuring the revenue systems of Nāyaka Tanjavur and Madurai."
Irschick, Eugene F. Politics and Social Conflict in South India, p. 8: "The successors of the Vijayanagar empire, the Nayaks of Madura and Tanjore, were Balija Naidus."
Sreenath, J.; Ahmad, S. H.; India, Anthropological Survey of (1989). All India anthropometric survey: analysis of data. South Zone (ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින්). Anthropological Survey of India. p. 26.
Harmony of Religions: Vedānta Siddhānta Samarasam of Tāyumānavar, Thomas Manninezhath
Thanjavur Nayak kings 18 ජූනි 2006 at the Wayback Machine
Tanjore History, http://www.tanjore.net/history.htm, ප්‍රතිෂ්ඨාපනය 7 June 2021
උපුටාදැක්වීම් දෝෂය: අනීතික <ref> ටැගය; hindu1 නමැති ආශ්‍රේයන් සඳහා කිසිදු පෙළක් සපයා නොතිබුණි

Bibliography

Nagaswamy, R Tamil Coins- a study, (1970), State Department of Archaeology, Government of Tamil Nadu
Vriddhagirisan V, Nayaks of Tanjore, ISBN , Reprint Annamalainagar 1942 edn., 1995
Velcheru Narayana Rao|Rao, David Shulman and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Symbols of substance : court and state in Nayaka period Tamil Nadu (Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998) ; xix, 349 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. ; Oxford India paperbacks ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; ISBN .
Sathianathaier, R. History of the Nayaks of Madura [microform] by R. Sathyanatha Aiyar ; edited for the university, with introduction and notes by ([Madras] : Oxford University Press, 1924) ; see also ([London] : H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1924) ; xvi, 403 p. ; 21 cm. ; SAMP early 20th-century Indian books project item 10819.
The Political Career of E.V. Ramasami Naicker: A Study in the Politics page 79 by I. Vicuvanatan, E. S. Visswanathan
The Mysore Tribes and Castes by L Anantha Krishna Iyer and H.V Nanjundayya
Encyclomedia Indica by Jagadish Saran Sharma
Gazetteer of the Nellore District: Madras District Gazettees - Page 105, Government Of Madras Staff - History - 2004 - 384 pages
Questioning Ramayana: A South Asian Tradition by Paula Richman
Literary Cultures in History by Sheldon Pollock
Castes and Tribes of Southern India by Edgar Thurston and Rangachari
Caste and Race in India by G.S.Ghurye
Questioning Ramayanas - by Paula Richman
The Literary Cultures in History - by Sheldon I Pollock
Further Sources of Vijayanagara History By K A Nilakanta Sastry
Penumbral Visions - by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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"Thanjavur - A Cultural History", Pradeep chakravarthy, Niyogi books

External links

"Minister, mentor and philanthropist". The Hindu. සම්ප්‍රවේශය 14 ජූනි 2008.
"The Hindu : Images of stunning beauty". The Hindu. සම්ප්‍රවේශය 14 ජූනි 2008.
"The Hindu : Crafted coins". The Hindu. සම්ප්‍රවේශය 14 ජූනි 2008.
"A Marvel of Medieval Indian Metallurgy: Thanjavur's Forge-Welded Iron Cannon by Balasubramaniam, R, Saxena, A, Anantharaman, Tanjore R, Reguer, S, Dillmann".

[1] Callā, Rādhākr̥ṣṇaśarma (2007). Landmarks in Telugu Literature (ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින්). Lakshminarayana Granthamala.

[Nayaks_of_Tanjore-2] Nayaks of Tanjore.

[3] Rao, Shulman & Subrahmanyam, Symbols of Substance 1992, p. 10: "Originally part of the great Telugu migrations southward into the Tamil country in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Balija merchant- warriors reveal the rise of hitherto marginal, and only recently politicized.. These mobile, aggressive, Telugu-speaking warriors....helped to build the Nāyaka state-system and to impregnate it with their particular cultural vision; strong surviving traditions; supported by contemporary evidence, assert Balija origins and / or marital connections for the major Nāyaka dynasties in the Tamil country quite apart from the well-known Balija role in restructuring the revenue systems of Nāyaka Tanjavur and Madurai."

[4] Irschick, Eugene F. Politics and Social Conflict in South India, p. 8: "The successors of the Vijayanagar empire, the Nayaks of Madura and Tanjore, were Balija Naidus."

[5] Sreenath, J.; Ahmad, S. H.; India, Anthropological Survey of (1989). All India anthropometric survey: analysis of data. South Zone (ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින්). Anthropological Survey of India. p. 26.

[6] Harmony of Religions: Vedānta Siddhānta Samarasam of Tāyumānavar, Thomas Manninezhath

[7] Thanjavur Nayak kings 18 ජූනි 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[8] Tanjore History, http://www.tanjore.net/history.htm, ප්‍රතිෂ්ඨාපනය 7 June 2021

[hindu1-9] උපුටාදැක්වීම් දෝෂය: අනීතික <ref> ටැගය; hindu1 නමැති ආශ්‍රේයන් සඳහා කිසිදු පෙළක් සපයා නොතිබුණි