Vellalars are a group of numerically dominant landowning Tamil caste who traditionally pursued agriculture as a profession in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and parts of Sri Lanka.
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Puducherry, Kerala, Karnataka | |
| Languages | |
| Tamil (Mother Tongue), Malayalam, | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Tamil people, Malayalam people |
Freedom fighters and leaders edit
- Marudhanayagam Pillai- He is the first freedom fighter and he was called the hero of Madurai, he was a brave man who defeated Pulidevar and ruled his territory,Then they hanged him ,the British army cut his our dead body into pieces due to the fear of him. Cut down and buried elsewhere in Tamil Nadu.[1]
- Dheeran Chinnamalai Gounder - Kongu chieftain and Palayakkarar from Tamil Nadu who rose up in revolt against the British East India Company in the Kongu Nadu, Southern India.[2]
- Vallinayagam Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai- also known as Kappalottiya Tamizhan and Sekkizutha Semmal, was an Indian freedom fighter and former leader of the Indian National Congress. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company.
- Chempakaraman Pillai- Chempakaraman Pillai was an Indian-born political activist and revolutionary. Born in Thiruvananthapuram, to Tamil Pillai parents, he left for Europe as a youth, where he spent the rest of his active life as an Indian nationalist and revolutionary.
- Vallal Pachaiyappa Mudaliyar - Notable Philanthropist.
Politics edit
- C. Subramaniam Gounder - Father of the Indian Green Revolution, Vetaran Congress Leader, Former Union Finance Minister, Deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission, Governor of Maharashtra. Bharat Ratna (the nation's highest civilian honour) in 1998.[3]
- Palanivel Thiagarajan - Indian Politician
Spiritual & Administrators edit
- Arumuka Navalar, born as Kandar Arumugam Pillai, a Hindu reformer.[4]
- Appar, also referred to as Tirunāvukkarasar or Navukkarasar, was a seventh-century Tamil Śaiva poet-saint. Born in a peasant Vellalar family, raised as an orphan by his sister, he lived about 80 years and is generally placed sometime between 570 and 650 CE.
- Nammalvar was one of the twelve Alvar saints of Tamil Nadu, India, who are known for their affiliation to the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism. The verses of the Alvars are compiled as the Naalayira Divya Prabandham, where praises are sung of 108 temples that are classified as divine realms, called the Divya Desams.
References edit
- ^ "Maruthanayagam, the reel hero's real hero". The Hindu. 2018-02-22. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
- ^ The memorial was a long pending demand of the dominant Kongu Vellalar community of the region, to which the valiant fighter against colonial oppression belonged. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-05/coimbatore/31293607_1_memorial-warfare-cauvery
- ^ Born on January 30, 1910, in Senguttaipalayam, a hamlet of Varadanur village in Pollachi taluk of Coimbatore district, in an agriculturists family from the dominant Kongu Vellalar community, Mr. Subramaniam, blended the strains of tradition and modernity in his own way, to eventually rise to gubernatorial positions. http://hindu.com/thehindu/2000/11/08/stories/01080009.htm
- ^ Jones, Kenneth W.; Hudson, D. Dennis (1992). Religious controversy in British India: dialogues in South Asian languages. SUNY. p. 29. ISBN 0-7914-0828-0.