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Pedro Kanakaraya Mudaliar was the chief dubash and a broker for the French East India Company. He remained in service for the longest period of 24 years between 1722 and 1746, specially during the early period of Joseph François Dupleix. He was succeeded by Ananda Ranga Pillai. Everything known about his life comes from the private diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai and the inscriptions found in the walls of St. Andrews church, which he built in the memory of his dead son. In the diary, he is portrayed as being jealous and the chief rival of Ranga Pillai. Thus, the accuracy of the description is questionable. As a broker, his roles were to act as an intermediary, supervising the manufacture of clothes, warehousing, and export of merchandise. Although the role of the broker was not to supply the French company with manufactured goods, he did so. He was a great merchant himself. ==Early life== Nothing is known about the early life of Pedro Kanagaraya Mudaliar. All converted Christians were poor except the family of Kanagaraya Mudaliar and his brothers. It was only of late years that a few had been able to keep themselves in comfort as Europeans' dubashes or in other employments.〔ECONOMIC CHANGES AND URIBANIZATION.1673-1761,〕 His grand father Thanappa Mudaliar was the first chief dubash of the French East India Company. Thanappa Played an important role in creating and instituting the French colony in Pondicherry. Thanappa Mudaliar, a native of Poonarnallee embraced Christianity along with his son on 20 March 1671 and took the name Lazaro de Mota. He did business in rice with French starting from 1672. The French kept him as their consultant in matters of trade and commerce. It was by his suggestion that the French officials reached Pondicherry by sea on 15, January 1674 with 150 migrants. Thanappa Mudaliar was appointed as the chief agent of the East India Company in 1674. He was later appointed as the head of the Tamil merchants in 1686. He was thus given the full control over the entire business of the company with the native merchants. He was the one to fix the prices of all commodities made available to the French in Pondicherry. Thanappa Mudaliar invited weavers from several neighboring places and made them settle down in various areas with a view to procuring sufficient volumes of textiles for export. He got constructed a number of storehouses for the commodities and so textiles, saltpeter, camphor, ivory, precious stones, and spices from other regions were brought to Pondicherry for export to France. His son Andre Muthappa Mudaliar discharged the duties of the courtier from 1699 on ward. On his demise Nainiappa was asked to take charge in 1708. He held an important position in French Pondicherry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanakaraya Mudali」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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