Yet another probability!

Names of places have a story to tell,as we have seen already.Our inti peru is none other than the name of a village we have left behind.It does not mean that we covered the distance from there to here at one go,in one life time.The migration must have taken a century or more,a few generations,with several sites chosen and abandoned,each movement determined by events conflicts and opportunities.With each movement,a trail is left behind,available for the historian to reconstruct the story.
(I am no historian trained to search and not be misled by false trails,sift select and document with proof from inscriptions,tales,folklore and literature.This is no more than a curious mind turning the soil in the net.Inputs and rebuttals are most welcome)
Back to the trails!There were several Rajapalayams,atleast 6 are still traceable.1.west of Cuddalore and north of Panruti.2.East of Thirupathur near Jolarpet west of Javvadhu hills 3.near Pattukkottai south of Mannargudi(telugu tamil fusion?temple of a king?Rajamannar or Rajagopalaswmi?)4.Between Salem and Thiruchengode5.south of Pondicherry 6.near Thuraiyur.Pages in history refer to some conflict sometime or the other in the neighbourhood. from the last days of Vijayanagar to the conficts between european colonies.
The Rajus who lived here,did they merge with the local population?Did they migrate from here,recruited to armies elsewhere?
In the southern extreme are villages bearing the names RajakkalMangalam,Kanjampatti,Kalingarajapuram,
all near kulachel,where Marthanda verma defeated the Dutch De lennoy.who later joined M.verma's army renovated Udhayagiri fort and lies buried there.The names are a throwback to coastal Andhra.On young Marthanda verma's advice,his uncle and predecessor,Ramaverma had a mercenary army recruited from Madurai and probably from Andhra,to face internal challenges from Ettuvittu Pillamars.This conflict intensified during Marthanda Verma's time,when Venadu transformed into Travancore,through several military campaigns.Did the Rajus serve in his army?Did their service boomerang on them?In the uncertain political scenario forces were grouping and regrouping,forming alliances with the merchant colonies,to sort out conflicts with neighbours!The French,the Dutch,The Portugese and the English were all players in Bobbili,Machilipatnam,Pondicherry,kulachel and Kollam fighting for control along the east and west coast for
their trade routes,fighting with'native'recruits.I am inclined to think Rajapalayam has its genesis here and not in Vijayanagar or in the Nayak rule,as it simply did not exist then,not even in the days of the Polyger wars.

All of this is the background in which we should look at two events that occurred in Travancore that just might hold the key to the origin of Rajapalayam.
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