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Sri Lankan Vellalar (Tamil: இலங்கை வெள்ளாளர், lit. 'Ilaṅkai veḷḷāḷar') is a caste in Sri Lanka , predominantly found in the Jaffna peninsula and adjacent Vanni region, who comprise about half of the Sri Lankan Tamil population.
Vellalar is a group of castes in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and northeastern parts of Sri Lanka. [a] [b] [c] The Vellalar are members of several endogamous [d] [e] castes such as the numerically strong Arunattu Vellalar, Chozhia Vellalar, Karkarthar Vellalar, Kongu Vellalar, Thuluva Vellalar and Sri Lankan Vellalar. [9] [10]
Vellalars are a landowning high ranking caste in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and parts of Sri Lanka. [1] [2] The Vellalar community adopts various titles, including Pillai, Mudaliar, and Gounder. These titles are used by different subcastes of the Vellalar, influenced by regional, social, and cultural factors. [3
Sri Lankan Vellalar, Sri Lankan Tamils, Govigama, Sinhalese Koviyar ( Tamil : கோவியர் , romanized: Kōviyar , also known as Covia ) is a Tamil caste found in Sri Lanka . They are traditional agriculturalists and temple workers but also included merchants, landowners and temple patrons. [ 1 ]
Sri Lankan-Canadian Tamil children in traditional clothes in Canada. After the start of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, there was a mass migration of Tamils trying to escape the hardships and perils of war. Initially, it was middle class professionals, such as doctors and engineers, who ...
Karaiyar and Sri Lankan Vellalar After the expulsion of the Portuguese, was the growing Dutch rule revolted in 1658 in the Jaffna region by the Christian Karaiyars and Madapallis . [ 28 ] A Dutch minister of the 17th century, Philippus Baldaeus , described the Karaiyars, Madapallis and Vellalars among the influential classes of the Christians ...
Sri Lankan Vellalar; T. Thondaimandala Vellalar; Thuluva Vellala This page was last edited on 7 May 2024, at 03:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
In the agricultural society were mainly the castes of the Vellalar, Nalavar and Koviar, where the Vellalar caste is the dominating one, particularly in Northern Sri Lanka. They approximately constitute half of the Sri Lankan Tamil population and were the major land-owning and agricultural caste. [27] [28]