List of Vellalars

Vellalar
Regions with significant populations
	Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Puducherry, Kerala
Languages
	Tamil (Mother Tongue), Malayalam, Kannada
Religion
	Hinduism
Related ethnic groups
	Tamil people, Kannada people

Vellalars is a term used primarily by various Tamil castes who traditionally pursued agriculture as a profession in the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Sri Lanka.

Freedom fighters and leaders[]

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.^[1]
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 "

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.^[2]

^ 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
^ 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
^ Jones, Kenneth W.; Hudson, D. Dennis (1992). Religious controversy in British India: dialogues in South Asian languages. SUNY. p. 29. ISBN 0-7914-0828-0.