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| group = Vellalar<br />
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| popplace = [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]], [[Kerala]]<br />
| languages = [[Tamil language|Tamil]] (Mother Tongue), [[Malayalam]], [[Kannada]]<br />
| religions = [[Hinduism]]<br />
| related = [[Tamil people]], [[Kannada people]]<br />
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[[Vellalar]]s is a term used primarily by various [[Tamil people|Tamil]] castes who traditionally pursued [[agriculture]] as a profession in the Indian states of [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Kerala]] and parts of [[Sri Lanka]].<br />
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==Freedom fighters and leaders==<br />
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* [[Dheeran Chinnamalai|Dheeran Chinnamalai Gounder]] -Kongu chieftain and Palayakkarar from Tamil Nadu who rose up in revolt against the British East India Company in the Kongu Nadu, Southern India.<ref>The memorial was a long pending demand of the dominant Kongu Vellalar community of the region, to which the valiant fighter against colonial oppression belonged. http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-05/coimbatore/31293607_1_memorial-warfare-cauvery</ref><br />
*V.O.Chidambaram pillai- He was a brave freedom fighter who bought against the British diplomatically by competing their trade operations. He bought many ships of his own and traded goods on his part to compete the British. He is popularly known as " kappal otiya tamilan " <br />
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==Politics==<br />
*[[C. Subramaniam|C. Subramaniam Gounder]] - Father of the Indian [[Green Revolution]], Vetaran Congress Leader, Former Union Finance Minister, Deputy chairperson of the Planning Commission, Governor of Maharashtra. [[Bharat Ratna]] (the nation's highest civilian honour) in 1998.<ref>Born on January 30, 1910, in Senguttaipalayam, a hamlet of Varadanur village in Pollachi taluk of Coimbatore district, in an agriculturists family from the dominant Kongu Vellalar community, Mr. Subramaniam, blended the strains of tradition and modernity in his own way, to eventually rise to gubernatorial positions. http://hindu.com/thehindu/2000/11/08/stories/01080009.htm</ref><br />
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== Spiritual & Administrators ==<br />
* [[Arumuka Navalar]], born as Kandar Arumugam Pillai, a Hindu reformer<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Kenneth W. |last2=Hudson |first2=D. Dennis |title=Religious controversy in British India: dialogues in South Asian languages |year=1992 |publisher=SUNY |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmY9fsUTjwYC |isbn= 0-7914-0828-0 |page=29}}</ref><br />
*[[Sagayam ias|Sagayam IAS]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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