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The Indian independence movement had a long history in the Tamil-speaking districts of the then Madras Presidency going back to the 18th century.. The first resistance to the British was offered by the legendary Since then there had been rebellions by polygars such as the Puli Thevar, Veeramangai Velu Nachiyar, Muthu Vaduganatha Periyavudaya Thevar, Ondiveeran, Marudu brothers, Veerapandiya ...
Tamil nationalism is primarily a secular nationalism, that focus on language and homeland. [1] It expresses itself in the form of linguistic purism ("Pure Tamil"), linguistic nationalism, Social equality ("Self-Respect Movement") and Tamil Renaissance. Since the independence of India and Sri Lanka, Tamil separatist movements have been actively ...
Subramaniya Siva was born in a Brahacharanam Iyer family [4] at Batlagundu near Dindigul in erstwhile Madurai district of Madras presidency. He was born to Rajam Iyer. He joined the Indian freedom movement in 1908. In 1908, he was arrested by the British and was the first political prisoner in Madras jail. While serving a prison term, he was ...
Vanchinathan. Vanchinathan (1886 – 17 June 1911), popularly known as Vanchi, was an Indian independence activist. He assassinated Robert Ashe, then district collector of Tirunelveli district on 17 June 1911 at Maniyachchi railway station. Ashe was considered to have suppressed independence activism and ordered the police to use violence.
t. e. Mandayam Parthasarathi Tirumal Acharya (15 April 1887 [1] – 1954) was an Indian nationalist, communist and anarchist who was among the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Tashkent group). [2] In a long political and activist life, Acharya was at various times associated with India House in London and the Hindu-German ...
v. t. e. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy [1] (17 September 1879 – 24 December 1973), also known as Ramaswami, EVR, Thanthai Periyar, or Periyar, was a Dravidian social reformer and politician from India, who founded the Self-Respect Movement and Dravidar Kazhagam. [2][3][4] In 1919 Periyar Ramaswamy joined the Indian National Congress after quitting ...
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai was born in Ottapidaram, Tirunelveli District to Olaganathan Pillai and Paramayee Ammal. [4] When Chidambaram was six years old, he learned Tamil from teacher Veeraperumal Annavi. He heard stories about Shiva from his grandmother and stories from the Ramayana from his grandfather.
Chempakaraman Pillai (alias Venkidi; [1] 15 September 1891 – 26 May 1934) was an Indian-born political activist and revolutionary. [2] Born in Thiruvananthapuram, to Tamil parents, he left for Europe as a youth, where he spent the rest of his active life as an Indian nationalist and revolutionary.