Question

who is Marudhanayagam ? ​

Answer 1

Maruthanayakar nayakar caste (1725 – 15 October 1764) a.k.a. Muhammad Yusuf Khan, was the commandant of the sepoys of the British East India Company's Madras Army . He was born in a Hindu Saiva Vellalar family in Panaiyur in British India, in what is now Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu. He later converted to Islam to enlist in the British army. He became a warrior in the Arcot troops, and later a commandant for the British East India Company troops. The British and the Arcot Nawab employed him to suppress the Polygar (a.k.a. Palayakkarar) uprising in South India. Later he was entrusted to administer the Madurai country when the Madurai Nayak rule ended.