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The 1987 Vanniyar reservation protest was a week-long protest organized by the Vanniyar Sangham and its leader, S. Ramadoss, in Tamil Nadu in September 1987. They demanded 20 percent reservation for Vanniyars in education and employment in the state and 2 percent in education and employment in the Union government.
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]
In November 2020, Ramadoss called for a protest demanding 20% internal reservation for Vanniyars in the MBC category in education and jobs from 1 December. During the pro-reservation protests, more than 500 PMK cadres pelted stones on a moving train and blocked traffic when they were blocked from entering Chennai.
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 ...
He was teacher by profession and left his job and got involved in the Vanniyar reservation protest which happened during late 1980's and became an active leader in Vanniyar Sangam and which later extended to political party, Pattali Makkal Katchi.
1987 Vanniyar reservation agitation; 1997 Melavalavu massacre; 2004 Kalapatti violence; 2015 Seshasamudram violence; 2016 Ariyalur gang rape case; 2018 Ambalapattu ...
Vanniyar mobility was severely restricted but the powers exercised by their masters were also limited – such slaves could not be expelled or transferred to another village, even if the masters left the region themselves. Dharma Kumar argues that the term slavery does not adequately describe the many forms of bondage existing within the ...
In April 2013, violence broke out between the villagers along East Coast Road near Marakkanam and those travelling to Vanniyar dominant caste gathering at Mamallapuram. A mob indulged in setting fire to houses, 4 buses of TNSTC and PRTC. 3 people were injured in police firing. Traffic was closed in ECR for a day. [47] 2015 Dalit violence in ...