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Adaviyar.—Adaviyar or Ataviyar is the name of a class of Tamil-speaking weavers found in the Tanjore and Tinnevelly districts.
- ↑ Commission, Tamil Nadu (India) Backward Classes (1975). Report of the Backward Classes Commission, Tamil Nadu, 1970. Government of Tamil Nadu. p. 66.
Pattariar and Adaviyar ) in the list of Backward Classes of the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission . Saliyan are yet another caste of weaver found chiefly in the districts of Chingleput , Trichy , Thanjavur ...
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