Polygar War - Later Day Folklore

Later Day Folklore

In subsequent years, a good deal of legend and folklore would develop around Dheeran Chinnamalai and his two brothers,hanged in Odanali on Aadi 18, and also around Kattabomman and the Maruthu Pandiyar Brothers. Long after Kattabomman's execution, Kayathar, Kattabomman's place of death, became and remained a site of political pilgrimage.

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