Adi Dravida (or Adi Dravidar) is a term that has been used since 1914 in South India to denote Paraiyars.[2] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, they made up about half of Tamil Nadu's Scheduled Caste population.
^"Census of india 2011" (PDF). Government of India.
AdiDravida (or Adi Dravidar) is a term that has been used since 1914 in South India to denote Paraiyars. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, they...
recommended Adi Dravidar as an alternative. In the 1920s and 1930s, Periyar E. V. Ramasamy ensured the wider dissemination of the term AdiDravida. Paraiyars...
primarily in South India. Homo Dravida, a historically defined race, propagated also by Devaneya Pavanar AdiDravida, natives of Southern India Dravidian...
(SC) Dates States where caste has SC status Adi Andhra 1950 designated Andhra Pradesh (1950) AdiDravida 1950 designated Andhra Pradesh (1950) Anamuk...
1937, Meenambal Sivaraj presided over the Tinnelveli District Third AdiDravida Conference. [better source needed] Kshirasagara, Ramacandra (1994). Dalit...
Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized: Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit. 'First...
Chelvadi, Chelavadi) is a dravida community, mainly belonging to Karnataka, "who are generally called formerly as AdiDravida (Balagai), Channaiah or Channayya"(Bidar...
the pioneers of the Scheduled caste movement in India. He founded the Adidravida mahajana sabha in 1893. Rettamalai Srinivasan was born in 1860 in a poor...
India (Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh), Vankars of Gujarat, AdiDravida (Paraiyan, Pulaiyar, Valluvar, Koliyar, Pallan) of Tamil Nadu and Pulayas...
themselves. In Southern India, Dalits are sometimes known as AdiDravida, Adi Karnataka, and Adi Andhra, which literally mean First Dravidians, Kannadigas...
certainly lost their lives. The very fact that no AdiDravida was shot clearly indicates that the AdiDravidas were not creating the mischief ... but my friend...
in India. Elections and winners in the constituency are listed below. AdiDravida, Vanniyar and Sengundhar Kaikola Mudaliar were majority in this constituency...
attempts to change the system outright. One such incident involved bringing AdiDravidas into the inner sanctum sanctorum of temples and threatening Brahmin priests...
Kula kshatriya's (Vanniya Gounder) community is the majority (55%) and AdiDravida (25%) and other Vannar, Kuyavar, Naidu community (20%) live in this village...
orthodoxy. Nandanar became "the hero of tales of caste protest". The "AdiDravida" (Dalit) leaders of the Self-Respect Movement used Nandanar as an exemplar...
Raja who became Chief Minister". The Hindu. 1 July 2016. "The Making of AdiDravida Politics in Early Twentieth Century Tamil Nadu". Social Scientist. July...
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