Palamaneri Iyers

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Pazhamarneri (Palamaneri) is a small village situated on the South bank of the River Kaveri. It is located 30 km northwest of Thanjavur and 32 km northeast of Trichy. It is 2.5 km from Tirukkattuppalli. Even though it is a small village, the name of this village along with surrounding villages is mentioned in historical books since the Chola Period.^{[citation needed]}.

Subsequent Generations settled in adjoining villages along as well as across the Kaveri. These villages include Nemam, Kuthur, Pachambettai (near Lalgudi), Onbathhuveli (near Tirukkattupalli ) etc.

Direct disciples of Thyagarja the saint Composer of Tiruvaiyaru hailed from Palamarneri. Many famous musicians of Carnatic Music belong to Palamarnri Brahacharnam sect. Sir PS Sivaswamy Iyer, a great Philanthropist who established a high School in Tirukkattuppalli and a Girls High School in Mylapore ( Chennai) belongs to this sect. PS Sundaram , educationist and recipient of award from the Government of Tamil Nadu for his translation of Tirukkural, Bharati's Poems etc into English also hails from this sect. N Kesi a Flautist of repute was a youngest musician of her days to cut a gramophone record( when gramophones were hand wound for playing)

Shri Krishnanrama Brhamaraayar, Defense Minister of Rajaraja Chola was from this village.^{[citation needed]} Even though he is Saivite by birth, he followed Vaishnavism through his lifetime. His son Arun Mozhi Bhattan served the ministry of Rajendra during the Chola Period. The descendants of their family were then called as Pazhamarneri Brahmarayas and commonly constitute the Palamaneri Brhatcharanam of the Iyer community. They live in huge houses with areas more than 5,000 sq ft (500 m²) in size. Their basic occupation is the supervision of agricultural lands. Until the 1970s most of them possessed a good area of land. However, due to change in the political scenario in Tamilnadu they fled to major cities, but some continued residing here thriving on agriculture based business. Today fellows from this group are spread worldwide (mostly in USA and Australia) and are well settled. The famous Tamil cinema story writter of this decade Mr. SUndharam ( known as Vietnam vidu sundharam ) is also from this village .