Ancestor Of kulappa Nayakar Of Nilakottai Makkala Nayakar Was Ruling A Small Region With Building A Fort In Rayar Samasthanam under The Third Vallala Of Hoysala Empire .That Nagar Was Called Beeja Nagar (bijanagar) .
Once Sultan Of Beejapur Marched with his troops so as to invade The Rayar Samasthaanam Of Vijaya Nagar.Bukka Rayar Collected A Large Army with Object of expedition Against Sultan.Ancestor of Kulappa Nayakar was called From rayar so as to Get Thaamboolam . [Here Thaambulam the word stands in the meaning of Trust or promise..Even if The Person who (got Thamboolam) dies ,never keep his foot back From the battlefield ].
Makkala nayak who belongs To kambalathar caste took his people of vallakavar and fought Against The Sultan.The sultan was defeated by the Army Of Vijaya nagar..
Having Heard The Victory against Sultan,
Admittedly Rayar Got Delighted. Rayar Gave Some Rewards To makkala Nayakar And permitted To build A Fort in the west of dindigul in madura country ..For His Bravery He Got the land Of Nilakottai which belongs To Rayar..
Makkala Nayakar Established A Fort with Mud And Named as Nilakottai For That Fort At the Year Of 1366 A.D.[Nilai Kottai Means being Constant Fort or being Stable Fort] when The Fort Of Nilakottai was Established ;Kulappa Nayakkar was At the Age of 7.
Rayar Requested Makkala Nayak To Pay His Tribute [Thoppa Panam].Makkala Nayakar Refused His Proposal because of Region Of Nilakottai Was Forest ..At this Time I am not Able to Pay My Tribute ..understanding That The Real Situation Of Nilakottai ;Rayer Accepted that.
After Ten years ;The Forest region Of Nilakottai Was clearing So as To Establish beautiful Villages,At That Time makkala Nayakar was killed By A Elephant ..Makkala Nayakar Died Leaving Behind Only Son of 17 Years Old Namely Kulapa Nayakar.
[1]=== Nilakkottai was a very fine palayam, consisting mainly of arable lands.” For his military help to the emperor of Vijayanagar in repelling a invasion, Makkala Nayaka, of the Kambala caste, was rewarded with lands west of Madura where, with the krishna devaraya Raya’s permission, he built the mud fort of Nilakkottai in 1366,A.D. He ruled for 12 years and was succeeded by his son Kulappa Nayaka. Along with the Pandya king chandra sekara of Madura, Kulappa was dispossessed by a Chola prince veera sekara chozha , and both defeated rulers appealed to the krishna deva raya Raya for help ===
He was the son of Nagama Nayaka, the successful general of Krishnadevaraya in the Vijayanagara empire. In the early 16th century, the Chola ruler Veerasekara Chola invaded the Madurai country and deposed the Pandya king Chandrasekara Pandyan.
The Pandya king was under the protection of the Vijayanagara empire[2] and he appealed to the court of Vijayanagara, and an expedition under Kotikam Nagama Nayaka was sent to his aid.[3][4]Nagama suppressed the Chola ruler and took Madurai, but then suddenly he threw off his allegiance and declining to help the Pandya king, usurped the throne. The Vijayanagar emperor demanded that someone cure the defection: Nagama’s own son, Viswanatha, volunteered, and the king sent him with a large force against the rebel. He overthrew his father and handed him over to the emperor and as a reward for his loyalty the king appointed Viswanatha Nayaka as the governor of Madurai and other provinces in the Tamil country thus leading to formation of the Nayak Kingdom of Madurai
When Viswanatha was appointed governor of Madura, Nilakkottai and big nine neighboring villages were restored to Kulappa, who was also granted kaval rights over several other villages.
, When viswanathanayakka ruled tamil nadu ,kulappanayakka helped him in many wars with his troops ;when pandiya was giving trouble to madurai country ;;Kulappa nayakkar controlled their did revolt with his troops. After vishwanatha nayak, madurai was ruled by krishappanayakka(1554-72) ;kulappanayakka had the good relationship with krishnappanayakka ; At that time, Head of thottiyam thambachi nayakkan refused to pay his kist(tax) to maduar kingdom and was uncontrollable ;kulappanayakka and his troops went with his troops and controlled him After some years sadaikka devar of ramnad sethupathi also refused pay kisti (tax) to emperor of madurai;the madurai king thirumalai nayakkar declared a war against the devar sethupathi at the year of 1639 ;kulappa nayakkar joined on that war with his troops;on that war the head of ramnad troops vanniya devan was killed with sword and on nayak troops virupakchinayakkan;kamatchi nayakkan was also killed.After some days king of ramnad sadikka sethupathi flee to thalai mannar(rameshwaram). At that time we can reach only by going a boat,,,so kulappanayakka built a bridge and went there and arrested the king of ramnad thus;the 12th polegar, helped the Nayaka of Madura capture the Sethupati of Ramnad.
Nagama kulappaNayaka, the 13th polegar, replaced the old mud fort of Nilakkottai with a stone structure. Chindama Nayaka, the 15th polegar, came under the rule of Hyder Ali when Dindigul was conquered by Mysore. At the time Dindigul was ceded to the Company, the palaiyam’s borders were being contested by its neighbors. McLeod, who became CollecTor of Dindigul during the rule of the 17th polegar, was sympathetic to the polegar. He restored the two villages confiscated by Hyder Ali, which were, however, confiscated again by his successor,
A Description Of the War Between The Palayakarar Koolappa Nayakar and The British East India Company ..
(1798AD)
Koolappa nayakar was A young brave man at the age of 25.He didn't obey the words of british, plus The Brtish government announced to hand over the weapons of Nilakottai palayam, even so he didn't handover the weapons.He never written the proper letters to goverment.
Once India was Ruled By British East India Company. After Dindigul country Conquered by british;The British Government pressed palayakaras to Pay their tribute .More to a point,Nilakottai Kulappa Nayakar also was pressed to pay his tribute. Kulappa nayakar told that we palayakars used to help the madaura kings by the troops of Military, but we dont used to pay our tribute to madura country .Having Heard the words from kulappa nayakar;British got fearful. Any how ,They collected some money of tribute from koolappa nayakar.
Nilakottai
Nilakottai which was very fine palayam had got many arable lands, undoubtedly muthulapuram and munilakottai had got many arable lands.From the villages of Nilakottai Koolappa nayakar got the 11000 chakkarapanam.British pressed to pay 9000 chakkara panam ,but then they could collect only 5000 chakaras.
Once In Nilakottai There is no enough rain for cultivation, At all events, kulappa nayakar never wished to collect the tribute from farmers in want of Rain .He wrote A letter not with proper manners To The Collector Of Madura about this matter. suddenly Some officers Of British came to Nilakottai to collect kist From Farmers. In addition that they gave troubles(hardships) to farmers in accordance with collector's order.
Having Heard this Matters,Undoubtedly Koolapanayaker plotted to kill the Man Of Tax collector.when He came to collect the tax from formers he was killed by koolappa nayaker near musuvanuthu..That place is still called sattai karan medu.(Sattaikaran means british man)
British Governmen got more angry on koolappa nayakar.And They came to resume Nilakottai palayam ,First and Foremost,Koolappa Nayakar openly declared war against british government .
He collected the ten thousand mans(kallans) from anaiur country and he fought against British government .The troops of koolappa nayakar armed with jingals matchlock spears,cudgels,bludgeons and messurs turnball and keys.. Nilakottai was attacted with cannon shot by british.in the first day kulappa nayakar overcame the British because of using gorilla warfare ..
In the Next day collector and many soldiers came to nilakottai from madura and They got victory ,even so they failed to catch the koolappa nayakar.British government announced the Rewards ,That is 1000 varahans put upon his head and For His family,500 varahans put upon their head..
Beter still ,koolappa nayakr was not caught by British for three years.he was collecting the weapons from a factory on a hill.Meanwhile,British got an information about his family ,that is his family was in bodinayakanur.The collector went thr but he was not permitted to search.Finally They forcely entered to Prayer room .Having Entered, The wife of koolappa nayakar was standing with the Great sword and tried to kill the collector of British ,fortunately,The collector escaped from three beats with her sword..Well now, The family of koolappa nayakar got Arrested and put in to jail.
A Servaikaran came to koolappa nayakar and He told about all things of his family got arrested by british..Finally Koolappa nayakar decided to surrender ,but then, the collector pressed to hand over the all weapos which was collected by koolappa Nayakar, meanwhile, they put him in jail and gave troubles to him .
For sake of his family he handed over the all weapons to british.
25th decedents of koolappanayakka are living in the Fort.Their Name are Kumara durai sinthama kulappa nayakkar and Jegadeesh kumara kulappanayakka,Prabhakara kulappanayakka and sathish kumara kulappa nayakar,
Forgotten kings
Nilakottai kulappa nayakar;manaparai lakka nayakkar;Nerkattumseval puli devar;Natham virumbandi devar;pethanayakkanur ettayapuram thalapathi veeran alagumuthukon servai Above said who showed their protest against british govt and marked ln their history, Then after veera pandiakattaboman;maruthu pandiars ;kamuthi devar ;virupakshi gobala nayakkar;deeranchinna malai umai durai;devathana patti lakshmi nayakkar; Struggled against british and we got freedom Nilakottai polegar alias palayakara was giving his protest against british for three years,,,its proud of us.
English: Nilakottai was ruled by king kulappa nayak from 1512 to 1801 A.D ,and sri kamaya kulappa nayak(North palace) was first president of nilakottai town panchayat in 1900
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