The immediate reaction of the Vellahlas to the Maviddipuram revolt was to fall back on their demi-god, Arumuka Navalar, (1822 – 1879). The Vellahlas owe their higher status in the caste hierarchy to ...

H. L. D. Mahindapala In 1968 Jaffna was facing an internal caste war which was threatening to tear it apart. The simmering caste conflict in Jaffna exploded with the low-castes, spurred by N.

India, during the Dutch period + 3. nearly, two century of the ideological impact of the only iconic religious leader, Arumuka Navalar, (1822 – 1879), who revised and reinforced Saivite-Vellahlaism ...

They not only threatened to enter the sacred domain of the Maviddipuram Temple – a domain reserved only for the upper-caste Vellahlas — but even stoned the statue of Arumuka Navalar, the demigod of ...