The Tholuva Naicker of India, numbering approximately 4,600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Tamil Nadu–based community with roots in Telugu-speaking Nayak groups, historically linked to military and administrative roles under the Vijayanagara Empire, and now integrated into the broader social and cultural landscape of South India They are an Indigenous people, with Tholuva Naicker as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Tamil people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Hinduism. They primarily speak Tamil.