The Vaduga or Vadugar, comprise three distinct Telugu-speaking caste-based communities of what is now the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Their original caste identities were as Kammavars, Balijas, and Kambalatars, and they believe themselves to have once been prominent in the Vijayanagara imperial court.[1]
People such as Veerapandiya Kattabomman, Tirumala Nayaka, Maharaani Mangammal, Virupatchi Gopala Naicker are some historical leaders and kings of Tamil Nadu Nayakar Kingdoms.[1]
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- ^ a b Dirks, Nicholas B. (1987). The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60–70, 174. ISBN 0-521-32604-4.