Annamalai Reddiyar or Reddiar (1865–1891) was a Tamil poet and composer. Born in Sennikulam,

Sankarankoil taluk Sankarankovil Taluk is a taluk of Tenkasi district of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The headquarters is the town of Sankarankoil Sankarankovil is a city in Tenkasi district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was formerly called Sankarana ...

, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, he studied Tamil under Ramaswami Pulavar and

U. V. Swaminatha Iyer Uttamadhanapuram Venkatasubbaiyer Swaminatha Iyer (19 February 1855 – 28 April 1942) was a Tamil scholar and researcher who was instrumental in bringing many long-forgotten works of classical Tamil literature to light. His singular efforts ...

and was later patronised by the zamindar of Uttrumalai. He is particularly remembered for his ''Kavadi Chindu'', a genre of songs chanted by devotees of Lord

Murugan Kartikeya ( sa, कार्त्तिकेय, Kārttikeya), also known as Skanda, Subrahmanya, Shanmukha (), and Murugan ( ta, முருகன்), is the Hindu god of war. He is the son of Parvati and Shiva, the brother of Ganesha ...

while performing

Kavadi Attam Kavadi Aattam (Tamil: காவடி ஆட்டம், Malayalam: കാവടിയാട്ടം) ("Burden Dance") is a ceremonial sacrifice and offering practiced by devotees during the worship of Murugan,Kent, Alexandra. ''Divinity and Di ...

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Tamil poets 1865 births 1891 deaths 19th-century Indian poets Poets from Tamil Nadu {{India-writer-stub