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pic : sorry original pic was not found .. this was the pic took when kamal sir imitated as marudhanayagam pillai
About : Muhammad Yusuf Khan (1725 – 15 October 1764) or Maruthanayagam Pillai (correctly Mathuranayagam Pillai) was born in Panaiyur, Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India in 1725. From humble beginnings, he became a warrior in the Arcot troops, later Commandant for the British East India Company troops. The British and the Arcot Nawab used him to suppress the Polygars (Palayakkarar) in the south of Tamil Nadu. Later he was entrusted to administrating the Madurai country when the Madurai Nayaks rule ended.
Later a dispute arose with the British and Arcot Nawab, and three of his associates were bribed to capture Yusuf Khan; he was hanged in 1764 in Madurai.
Legendary death : A legend is that he was hanged three times before he finally died.The brief story is that after he was sentenced to death by hanging he was hanged twice and the rope got broken.The British then ordered for a rope which were toughness-tested by mighty elephants.It was by this rope that he died.
Remarks : In 1808, a small square mosque was erected over the tomb in Samattipuram, in Madurai, which exists to this day on the left of the road to Theni, at Kaalavaasal, a little beyond the toll-gate, and is known as 'Khan Sahib's pallivasal'.
For more details :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammed_Yusuf_Khan#Movie
pic : sorry original pic was not found .. this was the pic took when kamal sir imitated as marudhanayagam pillai
About : Muhammad Yusuf Khan (1725 – 15 October 1764) or Maruthanayagam Pillai (correctly Mathuranayagam Pillai) was born in Panaiyur, Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India in 1725. From humble beginnings, he became a warrior in the Arcot troops, later Commandant for the British East India Company troops. The British and the Arcot Nawab used him to suppress the Polygars (Palayakkarar) in the south of Tamil Nadu. Later he was entrusted to administrating the Madurai country when the Madurai Nayaks rule ended.
Later a dispute arose with the British and Arcot Nawab, and three of his associates were bribed to capture Yusuf Khan; he was hanged in 1764 in Madurai.
Legendary death : A legend is that he was hanged three times before he finally died.The brief story is that after he was sentenced to death by hanging he was hanged twice and the rope got broken.The British then ordered for a rope which were toughness-tested by mighty elephants.It was by this rope that he died.
Remarks : In 1808, a small square mosque was erected over the tomb in Samattipuram, in Madurai, which exists to this day on the left of the road to Theni, at Kaalavaasal, a little beyond the toll-gate, and is known as 'Khan Sahib's pallivasal'.
For more details :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammed_Yusuf_Khan#Movie
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