• Dr.M.THAMARAI MANALAN

In the modern period, the Nadars played a vital role in the struggle for social equality. In the southern part of TamilNadu they were also an untouchable community till late in the twentieth century. During the modern period, there was an enormous increase in the number of land tittles held by Nadars. Once the land owners among them were limited to the aristocratic Nadar families, there were now thousands of landowners.1 The plots were often minute, but they were intensely cultivated for garden crops, such as chillies, onion and betel vine. These garden plots in the middle of the desolate terra country were watered from deep wells. “If water exists under the ground”, wrote Pate, “a Shanan will find it, and will quickly convert into a luxuriant garden a patch of poor soil, which in the time of its previous owner, had been dreay waste”.2

STATUS OF TAMIL SOCIETY IN MODERN PERIOD

"STATUS OF TAMIL SOCIETY IN MODERN PERIOD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.915-920, May-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805893.pdf

"STATUS OF TAMIL SOCIETY IN MODERN PERIOD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp915-920, May-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805893.pdf