YADAVA MOVEMENT IN TAMILNADU - D. NAGAENDHIRAN

The Yadavas of Tamilnadu were originally referred as ‘ARYAS’ in Tamil literature but locally called as ‘Idayans’. Even in the government records the community name was referred as ‘Idayans. Up to the Census 1921, the community name was noted as ‘Idayan’. The Tamil speaking Yadavas were referred as Idayans and the Telugu speaking Yadavas were referred as ‘Gollas’ and as Vaduga Aayars. The name of the community was notified as ‘Yadavas’ in government records as per the Government of Madras G.O.No.5240 Law (General) dt.13^th December 1930. In the G. O. it was said that the term ‘Yadava’ shall in future be adopted in place of Golla, Idayan, Gola, Gopi or Goda in all official announcement. Accordingly in the Census 1931 the name of the community was noted as Yadava instead of Idayan. This is the last caste wise census enumerated.

Accordingly the population of Yadavas as per 1931 census is as follows:

S.No.	District	Population
1.	Ramanathapuram	1,90,237
2.	North Arcot	1,60,003
3.	Thirunelvelli	1,57,530
4.	South Arcot	1,40,058
5.	Thanjaur	1,17,984
6.	Thrichy	1,15,934
7.	Chingleput	1,13,563
8.	Madurai	83,802
9.	Madras	23,611
10.	Coimbatore	22,973
11.	Kanyakumari	6,905
12.	Nilgiris	416
	Total	11,33,016

TAMILNADU YADAVA ASSOCIATION:

After the Tenth state level conference at Thirunelvelli the activities of the Sree Yadu Kula Maha Sangam came to a standstill because of the group rivalry. The dissident group under the leadership of Shri K. Loganathan of SNBT, Madurai with the assistance of Shri S. Veeraraghavan, Advocate formed Tamilnadu Shree Yadu Kula Maha Sangam, were active for some time and that activities were also came to a standstill after the demise of Shri K. Loganathan under the presidentship of Shri K. Loganathan a committee was formed to organize Madras District Yadava Association in the year 1971. They conducted Madras District Yadava Association Organising Conference at Abbotsburry Hall at Madras on 22^nd August 1971. Shri V. Venugopla Pilai, Shri R.S. Kone, Shri R. Venugopal Pillai. Shri N. Chengalvarayan, Shri M.T. Kulasekaran, Shri V. Loganathan Pillai and Shri L. Krishnamurthy took leading part in organizing the conference. But a sad thing had happened. Shri T. Chengalvarayan who was on a tour for organizing the conference met with an accident on 19.08.1971. It was a great loss to the organizers but anyhow they managed to conduct the conference on that date. Shri S. Veeraraghavan, Advocate presided over the conference.