---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Dr. Ravichandran Bathran" <ravi.ci...@gmail.com> Date: 13 Feb 2018 8:48 am Subject: [Arunthathiyar] Uproot the wall of caste erected by paraiyars against arunthathiyar..in Tamil Nadu To: "arunthathiyar" <arunthathi...@googlegroups.com>, "Director ISIB" < dirisi...@gmail.com>, "Thiara, Nicole" <nicole.thi...@ntu.ac.uk>, "Sanal.Mohan" <sanal.mo...@gmail.com>, "Gopal Guru" <gopalguru2...@gmail.com>, "Arunima G" <arunima.gopin...@gmail.com>, "jenny chithra" < jenny.chit...@gmail.com>, "hany babu" <hanyb...@gmail.com>, "k satyanarayana" <ksatya2...@gmail.com>, "susietharu" <susieth...@gmail.com>, "Aniket Alam" <aniketa...@gmail.com>, "Paul D'souza" <dsouz...@gmail.com>, "edisi" <ed...@isidelhi.org.in>, "praveen kumar" <praveen...@gmail.com>, "Madhava Prasad" <madhavapra...@gmail.com>, "Manas Ray" < ascetic.da...@gmail.com>, "Aditya Nigam" <adi...@csds.in>, "aditi mallick" < aditimallick...@gmail.com>, "anand patwardhan" <anand...@gmail.com>, "Narayanan Ananth" <changeindiacen...@gmail.com>, "Dr. Anand Teltumbde" < tanand...@gmail.com>, "ilaiah kancha" <ilai...@rediffmail.com>, "Subadra Joopaka" <joopakasuba...@gmail.com>, "Krupakar Ponugoti" < krupakarmad...@gmail.com>, "Bindu Menon" <binme...@gmail.com>, "Diane Coffey" <di...@riceinstitute.org>, "christine ithurbide" < christine.ithurb...@gmail.com>, "Shiva Shankar" <sshan...@cmi.ac.in>, "Teena Anil" <teenaanil2...@gmail.com>, "Pushpa Achanta" <apus...@gmail.com>, "Wilson-Gmail" <skando...@gmail.com>, "thirumavalavan" < thirumavala...@googlegroups.com>, "Suranjana Roy Bhattacharya" < suranjan...@gmail.com>, "Bhasha Singh" <bhash...@gmail.com>, "dasan bharathi" <beem...@gmail.com>, "Lisa Mitchell" <lmi...@sas.upenn.edu>, "lchinnaiyan" <lchinnai...@gmail.com>, "Arun Khote" < arun.khote2...@gmail.com>, "Veerapandian G" <veerapandi...@gmail.com>, "Sylvia Karpagam" <sakie...@gmail.com>, <soumiya...@gmail.com> Cc:
Paraiyars and Arundhathiyars in the village did different jobs in the past. Both reared pigs and ate dead cow meat. There were days when Paraiyars borrowed meat and rice from Arundhathiyars. Paraiyars' caste occupation in the village was knitting while Arundhathiyars' was to bury dead bodies and remove dead cows. Both of them worked as agricultural labourers in the fields of OBCs. Now, many of the Arundhathiyars migrate to nearby states to work, due to lack of agricultural work in the village. Between Paraiyar and Arundhathiyar houses, there is an empty space of about 50 cents used by both the castes for a long time. A few years ago Paraiyars built a fence over this land restricting Arundhathiyars from using this space. 40 houses of Arundhathiyars are in one place and 20 houses of Arundhathiyars are in another place nearby. The empty space was the only short route to access both sets of houses. It is also the space used to access shops, to gather, a small space to play etc. When Arundhathiyars asked Paraiyars the logic in building the fence, they argued that it is the land of Paraiyars. The village elders complained to the Village Officer about the fence and the restrictions against them. During this period, the villagers unearthed the fact that the empty land is actually a common land allotted to both the castes. Arundhathiyars also found that the land they were living on was actually provided by Kamarajar when he was the CM of Tamil Nadu. The government had then allotted 1 acre and 60 cents to Arundhathiyars and Paraiyars. In that, 1.10 acres were issued with individual pattas and 50 cents were provided for common purposes usage for Aathi Dravidars (a common terminology for all untouchable castes) to both the castes. He gave 14 pattas to different families of Hindu Arundhathiyars and 7 pattas to different Hindu Paraiyar families. Now the contention is about the 50 cent land. With this information, Arundhathiayrs ....requested ...... Please read in the following link..and share. http://roundtableindia.co.in/~roundta3/index.php?option=com_ content&view=article&id=9296%3Auproot-untouchability-wall-er ected-by-parayars-in-sandaiyur&catid=119%3Afeature&Itemid=132 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arunthathiyar" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to arunthathiyar+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to arunthathi...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/arunthathiyar. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
