Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress

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Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress
AbbreviationTTNC
Leader A. Nesamony
FounderSam Nathaniel
Founded1945
Dissolved1957
Colours  OrangeRed

The Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress (TTNC) was a political party in the Indian state of Travancore-Cochin. The party was founded by Sam Nathaniel and led by A. Nesamony, both natives of Palliyadi. [1]

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History

The Kingdom of Travancore was a princely state of India. Its population included an ethnic Malayali majority and a Tamil minority; the later suffered linguistic discrimination in education, [1] and leaders of Tamil organisations expressed concern about disadvantage from lack of economic development. [2] [3] The Tamil minority formed several political parties, one of them being Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress. [4]

The party's original platform was the formation of a separate Tamil state within Travancore. [5] The party contested the first Travancore constituent assembly election in 1948 and won 14 seats in the 120-seat legislature. [6]

In 1949, as part of the integration of India, Kingdom of Travancore merged with Kingdom of Cochin, another princely state, to form Travancore-Cochin. [7] Rajpramukh became the Governor. The Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress party won 9 [8] or 10 [9] seats in the first Travancore-Cochin assembly election. In the assembly, it supported the Indian National Congress to form a ruling coalition. It withdrew this support after 19 months because of differences with Congress over policy regarding Tamil-speaking parts of the state. [8] In the second assembly election in 1954, TTNC won 12 seats. [6] In the same year, TTNC called for the merger of Tamil-dominated taluks such as Thovalai, Agasteeswaram, Kalkulam, Vilavancode, Neyyatinkara, Shenkottai, Devikulam and Peerumedu with Madras state. [10] In August 1954, a street protest organised by the TTNC in support of these mergers took a violent turn. Police attempting to maintain control opened fire on protesters. Four people were killed and about a dozen sustained injuries. [11]

Following the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission, the States Reorganisation Act, 1956 restructured Indian regional jurisdictions. In this process, some Tamil regions (present day Kanyakumari district [lower-alpha 1] ) of Travancore-Cochin merged with Madras state (present day Tamil Nadu [lower-alpha 2] ) on 1 November 1956. [12] [14] Other Tamil-majority areas remained in Travancore–Cochin, including Neyyatinkkara South, Nedumangad East, Devikulam and Peerumedu. Following this reorganisation, the Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress successfully fielded a candidate in the Travancore–Cochin state election; once in the Assembly, he lobbied for amalgamation of further Tamil areas into the Tamil Nadu state. [15]

After the merger of the regions, the leaders dissolved the party in 1957 and joined the ruling Congress party. [16]

Notes

  1. ↑ Kanyakumari district consists of former Travancore taluks such as Agastheeswaram, Kallkkulam, Thovalai and Vilavancode [12]
  2. ↑ Madras state renamed as Tamil Nadu on 14 January 1969 [13]

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