Mixture of people in Madurai - Telugu, Sourashtrians, Muslims, North-Indians and Tamils

Madurai has a great mixture of people considering its history. You can notice this when you go into the heart of the city.

This article will explain about the different sources of people settled in Madurai. In various centuries different variety of people have come and settled in Madurai. Even today, those kind of inward and outward migration is happenning in Madurai.

In very olden days, Krishnadevaraya's kingdom ruled hence there is considerable amount of Kannada speaking population in Madurai and in the belt of Aruppukkottai etc., are there.

In those same ancient times, under Krishnadevaraya's kingdom, Nayakkars were ruling and administering Madurai (cannot forget Thirumalai Nayakkar), hence there is a significant Telugu speaking population in Madurai.

In the same angle, there was a period when Muslims from Delhi ruled Madurai and hence there are considerable amount of Muslims. In the same angle, due to missions, out of interest there are christian population, in addition the Hindu population already existing as a part of India.

Of course, i am not going to talk about the existing Tamil population, because it is anyway Tamil nadu, India.

We all know the origin of Sourashtrians, who came from Gujarat in olden times for making, providing and selling silk materials in Madurai for Nayakkars.

If you notice, there will be significant north-indian (Rajasthan, Gujarath) population settled in Madurai - they all came for business in Madurai - mostly Textiles business.

Recently there is more population from Orissa, Bihar - which is labour population for working in factories and industries in Madurai. They come as cheap labour as on date, which the local population is not willing to work. Most of the local population is studying well and they don't have to go as labour these days.

Most of the muslims do business as well. Few work for some body else.

In other hand, significant number of Malayalees work and stay in Madurai - few do business, but few have come for work, since Madurai is kind of near to Kerala.

Oh, by the way - I forgot a set of people in Railway Colony and Arasaradi area - they are the Anglo-Indians. It is usually said they have the mix of foreigners and Indians, from the times of English period. You would have noticed the same in Aadukalam movie in Tamil film industry.

I did not talk about Tamil' and categories of Tamil people in Madurai in this article.

It is an interesting mixture of different variety of folks in Madurai. Live it and feel it!!