Sunilkumar, said that it was an attempt to consolidate the votes of the Mukkulathor caste, an umbrella term for the Maravar, Agamudayar and Kallar castes and also known as Thevars, in southern Tamil ...

Nagendran's Mukkulathor (Maravar) caste identity and acceptability to the AIADMK leadership are seen as advantageous for the BJP's efforts to broaden its appeal and potentially revive its alliance ...

He later contested the 2024 Lok Sabha election His Mukkulathor (Maravar) caste identity and acceptability to AIADMK leadership keep him firmly in contention, according to IE. The BJP on Thursday ...

For example, through the late-19th and early-20th centuries, Nadar attempts to reinvent their caste status were resented by Maravar, who stood just above them in local caste rankings. Likewise ...

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In a similar incident, a 17-year-old Scheduled Caste (SC) student was brutally assaulted with sickles and empty beer bottles by a group from the dominant Maravar community. The attack allegedly ...

There is no safety for people like us,” she added. Kumar belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC), while the attackers belonged to the Maravar caste classified as the Other Backward Castes (OBCs).

A bus plying to Mudukulathur halted near Paramakudi at roughly 9.30 pm and 10 men carrying sickles ran towards Sekaran, asking if he was the man who had spoken up against Maravar leader and then ...

Though people of the Tamil country were receptive to Christian missionaries, Ramanathapuram, known as Maravar Seemai, was less tolerant of the foreign religion. Kizhavan Sethupathi (1671 AD-1710 ...

The committee was appointed by the state government in September 2023 following the hacking of a 17-year-old Dalit students by his classmates from the dominant Maravar community in Nanguneri in ...

A Maravar Thevar, he had a swift rise in the AIADMK after joining it in the late 1980s; the AIADMK top echelon had many Thevars, including J Jayalalithaa’s confidante V K Sasikala, at the time. Story ...

He joined the DMK in 2019. Both men belong to the Kallar caste (though Dhinakaran comes from Thiruvarur), which along with Maravar and Agamudayar, is one of the three sub-castes of the dominant ...