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  2. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Ethnic group Nadar Regions with significant populations Chennai, Kanyakumari, Kollam, Madurai, Thanjavur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thoothukudi, Tiruchendur, Tirunelveli, Virudhunagar Languages Tamil, Malayalam Religion Hinduism, Christianity, Ayyavazhi Related ethnic groups Tamil people Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the ...

  3. Channar revolt - Wikipedia

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    Reformation in Kerala. The Channar Lahala or Channar revolt, also called Maru Marakkal Samaram, [1] refers to the fight from 1813 to 1859 of Nadar climber women in Travancore kingdom of India for the right to wear upper-body clothes covering their breasts.

  4. Nadar - Wikipedia

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    Nadar. / 48.860; 2.396. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1] ), known by the pseudonym 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. [2]

  5. Roshni Nadar - Wikipedia

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    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] In 2019, she is ranked 54th on the Forbes World's 100 ...

  6. Cléo de Mérode - Wikipedia

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    Cléopâtre-Diane de Mérode (27 September 1875 – 17 October 1966) was a French dancer of the Belle Époque. [1] She has been referred to as the "first real celebrity icon" and the "first modern celebrity". [2] She was also the first woman whose photographic image, due in particular to photographers Nadar and Léopold-Émile Reutlinger, was ...

  7. Nadan (subcaste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadan (subcaste) Nadans (also referred as Nelamaikkarar) are a small endogamous group of aristocratic Nadars from the regions south of the Thamirabarani River in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu, India. They were hereditary tax collectors during the Nayak and Pandyan rule and also served as petty lords under the poligars.

  8. English Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    English Wikipedia (marked blue in the graph) is the most-read version of Wikipedia, accounting for 48% of the website's global traffic as of 2021. The English Wikipedia is the most edited Wikipedia's language version of all time. The English Wikipedia reached 4,000,000 registered user accounts on 1 April 2007, [23] over a year since the ...

  9. Breast tax - Wikipedia

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    The "breast tax" ( mulakkaram or mula-karam in Malayalam) was a head tax imposed on the Nadars, Ezhavars and lower caste communities by the Kingdom of Tranvancore (in present-day Kerala state of India ). [2] [web 1] [web 2] [note 1] In 19th century Kingdom of Travancore, all persons from lower castes were expected to pay poll tax when they ...