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The 1987 Vanniyar reservation protest was a week-long protest organized by the Vanniyar Sangham headed by S. Ramadoss in Tamil Nadu in September 1987 demanding 20 percent reservation for Vanniyars in education and employment in the state and 2 percent in education and employment in the Union government.
[7] [8] The Vanniyar Sangham organised the 1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation demanding Most Backward Caste (MBC) status for Vanniyars. At the peak of the protests, the state was paralysed for a week when thousands of trees were felled, highways blocked and damaged and more than 1,400 houses of the Dalit community were burned down. [9]
In 1987, the Vanniyar Sangham under Ramadoss organized the 1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation demanding MBC status for Vanniyars. At the peak of the protests, the state was paralysed for a week when lakhs of trees were felled, highways blocked and damaged and more than 1400 houses of the Dalit community burned down. [4]
Without the protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ohio State University would be a much different place. Police confirm 36 arrested at Ohio State anti-Israel protest Thursday night.
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In 1987, Vanniar Sangam, the Parent Body of Pattali Makkal Katchi, conducted statewide road blockades, vandalized public property, committed arson on Dalit settlements and fell trees seeking 20% reservations in state government and 2 percent reservations in the federal government for the Vanniyar Caste. 21 Vanniyars were killed in Police firing ...
An estimated 7,000 students and other people who were "exhuberant but orderly" gathered Nov. 28, 1961, outside the Ohio Statehouse in protest over the vote of the Ohio State University faculty to ...
The Vanniyar [2] also spelled (Vanniya Kula Kshatriya's, Vanniya), [3] formerly known as the Palli, are a Dravidian [4] community or jāti found in the northern part of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Vanniyars were historically considered a lower caste.