Chitra Katha
Puli ThevarFirst Poligar to Defy
From 1755, from his fort at Nerkattumseval in Tirunelveli, he refused tribute to the Nawab of Arcot and the Company and fought their armies for over a decade.
fought 1755–1767 CE
Sources for these facts
- Robert Orme, History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan
- Tinnevelly District Gazetteer (H. R. Pate, 1917)
- S. C. Hill, Yusuf Khan: The Rebel Commandant (1914)
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