Some of the communities that identify themselves as a vellalar are the numerically strong arunattu vellalar, chozhia vellalar, karkarthar vellalar, kongu vellalar, saiva vellalar, thuluva vellalar. Christopher fuller, an anthropologist, has said that it is likely that the first reference to the nair community was made by pliny. It is said that pandyan princess alii and carnatic king narasimha were the first ancestors of this community. The progress scale is derived from people group values for percent evangelical and percent christian adherent. The term pillai literally means child in the tamil language. Community matrimony offers matrimonial services with large database of illathu pillai brides and illathu pillai grooms worldwide. They are actually related to ezhavas of kerala which is confirmed by their reverence of sri narayana guru. Some people think the name itself is derived from nayaka, an honorific meaning leader of the people, while others believe it stems from the communitys association with the naga cult of serpent worship. Part of a series on hinduism unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Audio recordings, story of jesus audio jesus film project. Romila thapar born 30 november 1931 is an indian historian whose principal area of study is ancient india. Online shopping on lowest price with the most fashionable range of women,men and kids dress cloths and footwear, apparels, accessories every thing. Can you give a book with name of castes pillaimar,gounder or any vellalar caste name.
Sivagalai is a village in the tuticorin district of tamil nadu, india. Some of them converted to christian while under british rule. In 1914, the nair service society nss was founded by mannathu padmanabha pillai. She is the author of several books including the popular volume, a history of india, and is currently professor emerita at jawaharlal nehru university jnu in new delhi. This means they extract sap from palms such as coconut and palmyra to make an alcoholic beverage.
They constitute over nine per cent of the population in the tirunelveli district. They claim that they are on par with the brahmins in the social scale. Pillai or pillay is a surname found among the malayalam and tamilspeaking people of india and sri lanka origin. Matchfinder is the first online matrimony website to introduce 100 rs memberships. Vellalar is a generic tamil term used primarily by various castes who traditionally pursued agriculture as a profession in the indian states of tamil nadu, kerala and northeastern parts of sri lanka. They were associated with the padmanabhaswamy temple in thiruvananthapuram and the ettara yogam. The district capital tuticorin is 30 km from the village and srivaikundam and eral is 10 km and 6 km from the village respectively. They follow mainly writer, kanakku pillai, village karnam jobs in old times. They are believed to have migrated to this part of the state from thondaimandalam. Naan devendrakulathan chera,chola,pandiyaruda ratham.
Origin and history of illathu pillai community illathu pillai are tamil speaking community, spread over entire south tamil nadu. Hi, everybody, i have already been wrote a detailed history about our saiva vellala, but no body has studied it as quite. Pillaimar, kottai pillaimar and illathu pillaimar in the district. We have brides and grooms from 2000 different communities in india seeking matches from profiles like yours. The joshua project progress scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language.
Veerabahu avargal founder of tuticorin voc college of arts, apc college for women, apc high school, apc b. The aborigines of africa, north america, europe, australia, newzealand, arctic were all killed by white race for colonization. Ilavan in india ethnic people profile joshua project. Matchfinder also offers paid matrimony services like personal. Universal history, from the creation of the world to the beginning of. You can understand who are saiva vellala, one more thing, before vyasa maharshi all the devotion and poojas are done by us. The kolam is a traditional handdrawn art form in tamil nadu and south india comprised of many subfamilies. November 2009 a gotra is the lineage or clan assigned to a hindu at birth. Saiva pillai are both forward castes and backward castes. History of illathu pillai communityezhava related facebook.
View the profiles of people named illathu pillaimar sangam. Sri mutharamman,sri uchinimahali amman, sri kodikalpathu sudalaimadasamy are the famous temples here for illathu pillaimar community people. E d college and many more educational institutions. Introduction history the ilavan are also known as izhava or ezhavas. Pillai, doctor of divinity, 19001970 a bishopatlarge of the indian orthodox church. Naraina pillai, a social entrepreneur and businessman marimutthu pillai, a musician c. There was also a book called karuneegar puranam they believe they are descendants of chitra guptha, whose wife is karnagi amman.
History of pillai, origin of pillai, food habits of pillai, vazhavu housing system of pillai, great pillai gallery. You can search any of the history books andor wikipedia. Welcome to the most affordable matrimonial site in india matchfinder. Pillai are divided into two 1saiva pillai pure vegetarian 2asaiva pillai nonveg. Follower of freedom fighter vo c hidambaram pillai, congress veteran, tuticorin leader his son thiru apcv. Postgraduate and research department of history, farook college kozhikode kerala 673632. Buy the world renowned research book on kottai pillaimar read it at world library read more. Illathupillai brides and grooms,matrimonial,matrimony. Origin and history illathupillai community kerala religion. Their power and wealth grew until marthanda varma 17061758, the last king of venad and the first king of travancore, defeated them in the 1730s. Origin and history of illathu pillai community illathu pillai ezhava called in tirunelveli regionthe ruler of ay kingdom are tamil speaking community, spread over entire south tamil nadu.
Apart from doctor consultations, if any medical information is required for eg. The ettuveetil pillamar lords of the eight houses were nobles from eight houses in erstwhile venad in presentday kerala state, south india. Romila thapar history books pdf download romila thapar. Illathu pillai or illathu pillaimar is a community of south indian state tamil nadu. Pamphlet about illathu vellalar mantapam at palani. Illathu pillai are tamil speaking community, spread over entire south tamil nadu. Kolam patterns are most commonly drawn with chalk or rice powder by women on the. Signup for free to get access to unlimited indian brides and grooms. Indian history by vk agnihotri welcome to the department. About us tamilnadu illathu pillaimar sangam mumbai. Join facebook to connect with illathu pillaimar sangam and others you may know. The title occur both as a single name or as a suffix to the name.
Sri narayana guru, arattupuzha velayudha panicker, kumaran asan. There are large gaps in the known early history of the kerala region, which in the. Chokalingam avargal now looks after most of his fathers ventu. Similarly the havas of tamilnadu now renamed as illathu pillaimars are said to be the immigrants of south travancore. Velalar pottery maker or kuyavargal versus vellalar.
Asaiva pillai are also both forward castes and backward ca. Thamotharampillai, publisher of ancient tamil texts arumuka navalar, born as kandar arumugam pillai, a hindu reformer m. Download as doc, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. Pillai brides find lakhs of pillai matrimony brides, girls on pillai matrimony,the no 1 pillai matrimony site to search pillai brides from all divisions of pillai community. They are believed to be related linguistically or socio linguistically to group of words elu hela seehala simhala salai seilandiba pointing all to the island of srilanka.