page_title: Arunthathiyar
hierarchical_section_title: Arunthathiyar
caption_attribution_description: English: ATP conference
context_page_description: Arunthathiyar is a scheduled caste community mostly found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but were originally from what is now the state of Andhra Pradesh .Thus, many still speak the Telugu language at home and the Tamil language outside. The term has two distinct usages: for the purposes of the state government's positive discrimination program, in 2009 it was designated an umbrella term for the Arunthatiyar, Chakkiliyar, Madari, Madiga, Pagadai, Thoti and Adi Dravida communities; while the Office of the Registrar-General, which administrates the census of India, does not recognise all of those communities as one.
  The 2001 Census of India reported that there were 771,659 Arunthathiyar in Tamil Nadu, being 6.5 percent of the Scheduled Caste population of the state.
context_section_description: Arunthathiyar (chakkiliyar:-cobbler) is a scheduled caste community mostly found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, but were originally from what is now the state of Andhra Pradesh  .Thus, many still speak the Telugu language at home and the Tamil language outside. The term has two distinct usages: for the purposes of the state government's positive discrimination program, in 2009 it was designated an umbrella term for the Arunthatiyar, Chakkiliyar, Madari, Madiga, Pagadai, Thoti and Adi Dravida communities; while the Office of the Registrar-General, which administrates the census of India, does not recognise all of those communities as one.
  The 2001 Census of India reported that there were 771,659 Arunthathiyar in Tamil Nadu, being 6.5 percent of the Scheduled Caste population of the state.
caption: Arunthathiyar community members at an Aathi Thamizhar Peravai meeting
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