Veeran Sundaralingam

Sundaralinga Kudumbanar (died 1799), also known as "Veeran" Sundaralingam Kudumbanar, was an 18th-century CE general from Tamil Nadu, India.

He was a general of the Poligar Veerapandiya Kattabomman in his fight against the British East India Company. According to youtube Documented to have killed aprox 30 British soldiers with sword when they were about to capture Kattaboman. According to a majority of the accepted historical accounts, he was killed in 1799, while fighting for Kattabomman during the First Polygar War. Another view is that he was killed in the Second Polygar War (1800-1) while assisting Kattabomman's younger brother Oomaithurai.Third youtube view his "would-be" wife Vadivuas a shepherd and he hiding within the herd with a flame torch infiltrated the fire artillery fort, ignited the British artillery along with his "would-be" caused a Suicide attack.

According to youtube he stopped the building of a dam by yettaypuram people who were in favour of British that would have stopped irrigation to his area people which very much attracted Verrapandia kattaboman and invited him to join his side and submitted most of his taskforce to him. In the 90s, the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation engaged a public transport line which was named after Veeran Sundaralingam. However, this led to a backlash among the Mukulathor communities. After this event, the Tamil Nadu government decided to remove all caste based names from government institution. In 2009, the Tamil Nadu government-issued a policy note to build a memorial for Sundaralingam at Governagiri.