Sembadavar or Parvatha Rajakulam is a traditional fisherman community found mainly on the Coromandel coast of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry...

communities in Tamil Nadu such as the Paravars of the southeast coast, Sembadavars of the inland regions and Pattanavars of the central and northern coast...

share common origins. Coastline of Tamil Nadu Timeline of the Kurukulam Sembadavar Pārati, Paktavatcala (1999). Coromandel fishermen: an ethnography of Paṭṭaṇavar...