摘要：The district of Tirunelveli in the Madras presidency is located in the extreme South-Eastern part of the Indian peninsula on the Coromandel Coast. The principal towns in the district were Palayamkottai and Tuticorin. Palayamkottai was the headquarters of Tirunelveli district, while Tuticorin was a large town and sea port.1Tirunelveli district had almost every class and caste of Hindus of southindia. The remaining castes in the district wereVellalars, Raddis, Maravars, Naidus, Chettiars, Panickers, Idaiyars, Kadiars, Kammalars and the lower caste Shanars, Pallars, Parayars, and Paravars. The main characteristic of the Tirunelveli district of the eighteenth century was political instability and disorder.2
