Raja Todarmal

Raja Todarmal (b. n.d.; d. n.d.) was a general in the service of Sadatulla Khan, the Nawab of Carnatic, a small sultanate that ruled over parts of present-day Tamil Nadu, India between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. A group of statues depicting Todarmal, his queen Pita Bibi and his mother Mata Mohan Dey can be found at the Tirumala Venkateshwara Temple in Andhra Pradesh and in the Varadharaja Perumal Temple in Tamil Nadu.

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