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Maruthanayagam
Khan Sahib's Pallivasal (Tomb)
Born
1725
Keelapanaiyur, Kingdom of Ramnad (now in Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu, India)
Died
15 October 1764(1764-10-15) (aged 38–39)
Sammattipuram, Carnatic Sultanate (now in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India)
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Burial place
Sammattipuram, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Military career
Allegiance
Mughal Empire, British Empire
Service/branch
Nawab of Arcot
Rank
Sepoy, Ispahsalar
Battles/wars
Carnatic Wars
Muhammad Yusuf Khan (born Maruthanayagam Pillai)[1] was a commandant of the British East India Company's Madras Army. He was born in a Tamil Vellalar clan[2] family in a village called Keelapanaiyur in British India, what is now in Mudukulathur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu, India. He converted to Islam and was named Muhammad Yusuf Khan. He was popularly known as Khan Sahib when he became the ruler of Madurai. 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.
A dispute arose with the British and Arcot Nawab, and three of Khan's associates were bribed to capture him. He was captured during his morning prayer (Thozhugai) and hanged on 15 October 1764 at Sammatipuram near Madurai. Local legends state that he survived two earlier attempts at hanging, and that the Nawab feared Yusuf Khan would come back to life and so had his body dismembered and buried in different locations around Tamil Nadu.
^Biswajit Das, Debendra Prasad Majhi (2021). Caste, Communication and Power. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9789391370909.
^(Yusuf Khan: The Rebel Commandant by S.C.Hill-1914, Page 2 [1])
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