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Volume : III, Issue : VIII, September - 2013 Tamil Society In The Sixteenth Century M. Jeenadas Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by far the great majority of the people of Tamilnadu were
Hindus belonging to both salivate and Vaishnavites sects. There were followers of Jainism also. There was a small
population of Muslims also. The rulers of Vijayanagar worshipped Siva till they became Vaishnavites towards the
close of the fifteenth century. Krishnadeva Raya was a devotee of Vishnu, but he also worshipped Siva.
Vishvanatha Nayak, the founder of the Nayak line in Madurai and his successors were Vaishnavities. The Pandya
rulers before the time of the Nayaks had been faithful saivites Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : M. Jeenadas, (2013). Tamil Society In The Sixteenth Century. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. VIII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3020.pdf References : - H.Heras, The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagar (Madras , 1927) pp 540 – 544
- K.A.Nilakanta Sastri, A History of South India (oxford university press madras, 1976) pp 314 – 326
- Fr.Joseph Wicki, ed., “Letter of Balthasar Nunes 1552, ” Documenta Indica, Vol. II, p 559
- R.Sathyanatha Aiyer, History of the Nayaks of Madura, Madras University Historical series No. 2 (university of Madras, 1980) p 193.
- J.Bertrand, La mission due madure (paris 1847 – 54 ) Vol II, pp 355 – 356
- K.A.Nilakanta Sastri, A History of South India, op cit, pp 318 – 319.
- K.A.Nilakanda Sastri, A History of South India, op cit, p 31.
- Ibid, p 31.
- Albert M.Nevett, John de Britto and His times (Anand : Gujarat Sathiya Parakash 1980), p 106
- K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, A History of India op cit, p 319.
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