Perungamanallur
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Perungamanallur பெருங்காமநல்லுர் |
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 Perungamanallur
Perungamanallur
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| Coordinates: 9°52′08″N 77°49′13″E / 9.868883°N 77.820282°ECoordinates: 9°52′08″N 77°49′13″E / 9.868883°N 77.820282°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Tamil Nadu |
| District | Madurai |
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| • M.L.A | P. V. Kathiravan |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Tamil |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
Perungamanallur is a Village in Peraiyur taluk, Sedapatti block, Madurai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and part of Usilampatti (State Assembly Constituency)
Perungamanallur massacre,
Historians and Anthropologists consider fingerprinting under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) as a means to resist the movement of individuals and population by police suspecting criminality as one of the most draconian laws that came into existence in the Colonial era.
The Piramalai Kallars, among other castes in the erstwhile Madras Presidency, were systematically fingerprinted (suspecting thievery) and restricted to their villages under CTA, 1911.
The centenary of the promulgation of the Act falls on the year 2011 and years ago 16 persons were killed in Perungamanallur, near Sedapatti resisting CTA.
Members from various organisations and parties paid homage at the Black Pillar erected in memory of those victims.
The black pillar with a burning torch on top in Perungamanallur now stands as a symbol of resistance against the coloniser and his draconian law.
History of CTA
Originally the CTA came into being in 1871 and further amendments were made in 1911, 1924 and 1944, which gradually toned down the provisions of the Act.
Studies revolved around anthropomorphic details and caste which was considered as an entity with concrete and measurable traits such as endogamy, commensality rules, fixed occupation and common ritual practices were looked into.
Most importantly it was said that the colonial discourse on criminal castes and tribes has developed around the accounts of ethnographic accounts of administrator historians.
As per the Act, members of the criminal tribes had their fingerprints taken and their mobility restricted. Under Section 10(a) of the Act, hours were fixed for them to report to the police. After 1918, the registration of Kallars under the CTA proceeded at a brisk pace of several thousands each year and resistance to this intrusion reached a climax in 1920.
In 1919-20, 1,400 Kallars were brought under this Section. The hours fixed were 11 p.m. to 4 a.m., which compelled them to sleep at the police station every day. This made life difficult for the Kallars and the women in the community had no safety.
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