From: sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy)
Subject: Re: tamilnadu pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagangal
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: TPTC,MPTC,CTC,NTC,PTC etc
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:47:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug17.214755.10868@menudo.uh.edu> aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna) writes:
>
>Chidamabaram - thanthai periyar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Chennai      - pallavan pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Karaikudi    - maruthu pandiar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Madurai      - pAndian pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Tiruchi      - dheeran chinnamalai pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Kovai        - cheran pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Kumbakonam   - chozhan pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Vellore      - pattukkotai azhagiri pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Krishnagiri  - rAni mangammAl pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Nellai       - kattabomman pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Nagercoil    - nEsamani pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>Erode        - jeeva pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
>  
>(1) Have I left something?

	Yes, you left few 'important corporations'.

	Entire TN   - thiruvaLLuvar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam 
	Salem       - aNNaa pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam
	Krishnagiri - annai cathyaa pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam

	raaNi mangammaaL should be somewhere near Thirunelveli.

>(2) What is the connection between Chidambaram and Periyar?
>(3) What is the connection between Vellore and pattukkOttai Azhagiri?
	
	The connection between these people are like more than the connection
	MGR's mother has with Krishnagiri. The history of these two 
	corporations is the following:

	In the begining it was 'pallavan (puRanagar) pOkkuvarththuk kazhagam'
	covering Chengulpet, North Arcot and South Arcot districts. That was
	later bifurcated into one with the same name and another with 
	'thanthai periyaar pOkkuvaraththuk kazhagam'. While the former covered
	Chengulpet district, the later was for North and South Arcot districts.
	The name 'periyaar' might have been given, because it was in a 
	Women's conference in Vellore E.Ve. Ramaswamy was conferred the title
	'periyaar'. Later the corporation was bifurcated again. Strangely,
	Periyaar name was retained for South Arcot based corporation, probably
	because, the original head quarters was in Vizhuppuram and continue to
	be so.

	'pattukkottai' azhagiri was a pioneer of anti-hindi movement and he took
	a march from his place to Madras on this issue, much before Periyaar.

	People also get used to the names, of course changing their own way,
	no matter they know the reasons or not.

	First they used tell 'roottu vaNdi' for govt buses. When it was changed
	Periyaar, 'periyaar vaNdi'. When it was abbreviated for unknown reason
	during emergency as TPTC (the name was 'periyaar' was removed 
	everywhere), people said 'teeptici'. Now it is 'pattukkottaikaaran'.
	
>(4) Can anybody brief the importance of dheeran chinnamalai,
>    rani mangammAl, nEsamani?
>  (This may look silly. Really I don't know anything about them)
	
	dheeran chinnamalai was a 'anti-hindi movement' martyre.
	raaNi mangammaL was a naayakar queen in the south. I think there is
	a 'historical road' called 'mangammaaL caalai'. There is a saying
	'mangammaaL caalai. maRandhuvidaathE cOlai'. 
	nEcamaNi was a congress veteran, I beleive. Does he have anything to
	do with the 'naanjil naadu pOraattam'?.

>(5) Eventhough I've heard of maruthu pandiar and jeeva, I'd like
>    to know more about them.
	
	jeevaa's full name is pa. jeevaanandham. He was a communist party 
	leader. He was the founder of 'thamizhnaadu kalai ilakkiya perumanRam'
	and 'thamarai', a literary magazine. He was one of few communists, who
	were conscious about the culture, language, art and literature. Had
	there been more like him, Tamil Nadu politics would have been more like
	Kerala politics than the present TN politics. CPI was a major 
	opposition party till 1957 and slowly lost hold, thanks to the 
	exploitation of basic issues by the DMK which were ignored by the 
	communist party in Tamil Nadu. jeevaa was a poet too. 
	One of his famous songs starts like, 

	'kaalukkuk cheruppumillai 
	   kaal vayiRRuk koozhumillai
	paazhukku uzhaiththOmadaa
           ..................

>(6) Are kamarAj, rAjaji names used for any transport corporations?
>    If not, why? And how they are inferior compared to pattukOttai
>    azhagiri?
>
>Cheers,
>Venkat
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