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  2. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar. The Nadar community was not a single caste, but developed from an assortment of related subcastes, which in course of time came under the single banner Nadar.

  3. Shiv Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Shiv Nadar (born 14 July 1945) is an Indian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. [2] He was the founder and chairman of HCL Technologies, and is chairman of the Shiv Nadar Foundation. Nadar founded HCL in the year 1976 and transformed the IT hardware company into an IT enterprise over the next three decades. [3] In 2008, Nadar was awarded Padma Bhushan for his efforts in the IT industry ...

  4. Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Children. Paul Nadar. Father. Victor Tournachon. Signature. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1]), known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.

  5. Hermaphrodite (Nadar) - Wikipedia

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    Hermaphrodite. (Nadar) Hermaphrodite is a series of photographs of a young intersex person, who had a male build and stature and may have been assigned female or self-identified as female, taken by the French photographer Nadar (real name Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) in 1860. Possibly commissioned by Armand Trousseau, the nine photographs have ...

  6. Nadan (subcaste) - Wikipedia

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    History As hereditary tax collectors, the Nadans held civil authority over the lands in their control. The term Nadan means lords of the land. The Nadar climbers were totally dependent on these powerful landlords and treated them with great respect. In the regions dominated by the Nadans, even the Vellalar accountant or the Brahmin priest would show deference to the position of the Nadan lords ...

  7. Roshni Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Roshni Nadar. Roshni Nadar Malhotra (born 1982) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist and the chairperson of HCL Technologies. She is the first woman to lead a listed IT company in India. [2][3] She is the only child of HCL Group founder and billionaire businessman Shiv Nadar. [4]

  8. Nadar climber - Wikipedia

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    Nadar climber in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. To the south of the Tambraparni, the Nadar climbers constituted the vast majority of the population in the palmyra forests of the Tiruchendur teris, during the 19th century. Majority of the Nadars today come from the south of Thamiraparani river. The Nadar climbers here secured a meager ...

  9. HCLTech - Wikipedia

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    HCLTech. [5] HCL Technologies Limited (d/b/a HCLTech) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida. Founded by Shiv Nadar, it was spun out in 1991 when HCL entered into the software services business. The company has offices in 60 countries and over 220,000 employees.

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