List of Vellalars

Vellalar
Regions with significant populations
Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Puducherry, Kerala
Languages
Tamil (Mother Tongue), Malayalam
Religion
Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
Dravidian people, Tamil people

Vellalars are Tamil people who use titles such as Gounder in Kongu Nadu, Mudaliar in Thondai Nadu and Pillai in Chozha Nadu and Pandya Nadu.

Poets and Ministers

Freedom fighters and leaders

  • Dheeran Chinnamalai -Kongu chieftain and Palayakkarar from Tamil Nadu who rose up in revolt against the British East India Company in the Kongu Nadu, Southern India.[1]

Politics

Literature

Spiritual

References

  1. 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
  2. Dictionary of Indian Biography. Indian Bibliographic Centre. 2000. p. 52. ISBN 978-8-18513-115-3.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
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