Pillai Matrimony

Pillai community or called in Tamil colloquially as Pillaimars is also known as
Vellalarfrom the Tamil word Vellaanmai, those who are involved in agricultural activities.

The Vellalar tribes are described as a landed gentry who irrigated the wet lands and the Karalar were the landed gentry in the dry lands.

Pillai community or called in Tamil colloquially as Pillaimars is also known as
Vellalarfrom the Tamil word Vellaanmai, those who are involved in agricultural activities.

 This community is a small but significant in terms of their contribution to society.

 They are primarily present around southern districts of Tamil Nadu - Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari and are spread
 

across Tanjavur and a lot of them have migrated to Chennai and other places for employment opportunities.

 They inhabit the Kumari mavattam Nagerkovil and Kanyakumari.

 The other Tamil Pillais don’t marry with them, since these people are strongly influenced by the Kerala culture. 

The Nagerkovil Kanyakumari area is located on the tip of Kerala and Tamil Nadu;
it was once part of Kerala and is now in Tamil Nadu. 

The strong Kerala influence is seen in there food habits, language slang and other customs which sort of differentiate them from the other.

Tamil Pillai communities. But since this community is of Tamilian origin, marriage with the Kerala Nairs, Menons and Pillais is prohibited. 

Thus the Vellala community of Tamil Nadu and perhaps Kerala even though has a long heritage which can be traced back to Sangam literature is largely diverse and much unknown to the modern world.

They were a dominant secular aristocratic caste who contributed as courtiers, army officers, lower ranks of the bureaucracy and upper layer of the peasantry.

The Vellalars who were land owners and tillers of the soil and held offices pertaining to land,
 were ranked as Sat-Sudra in the 1901 census.

with the Government of Madras recognising that theFour fold division did not describe the South Indian, or Dravidian, society adequately.

They are mainly classified as Saiva Vellalar pure vegetarians & worshippers of Lord Shiva
 and Asaiva Vellalar non-vegetarians & worshippers of Lord Shiva. 

The Saiva Pillai or Vellalars are a minority within this community and take great pride in maintaining their community customs and traditions.
They are strict vegetarians, place emphasis on education
 and are sophisticated like Brahmins but do not perform priestly duties.

The Vellalars of Sri Lanka have been chronicled clearly in the Yalpana Vaipava Malai and other historical texts of Jaffna kingdom. 

From the 13th century when migration of Vellalar chiefs to Jaffna took place,Tamil Nadu has seen a decline in the traditional power of Vellalars except in Kongu Nadu
Of the three Vellala communities, the Pillais are the most exogamous.

Thus in many parts of Tamil Nadu, there are many people belonging to diverse communities wh ocall themselves as Pillais again for obvious social upliftment.

 Thus, the sub-caste system among Pillais is very diverse. Even among the Vella Pillais, eight major groups can be identified:

  the Karuneega Pillai Kanaku Pillai mainly in Thondai mandalam area, . Karkattha Pillai Thanjavur kumbakonam area  many people belonging to this community are wrongly mistaken as Brahmins due to the strong association between these two communities in the Cauvery belt area, Thuluva Vella Pillai, Shoziya Vella Pillai,Pandiya Vella Pillai, Thirunelvelli Siva Pillai, Nanjil Pillai Sengottai Pillaimar and  Kerala Pillai Chera Vellalar.

Since there are so many sub-castes, hierarchy among them is inevitable. 

Even though the Thirunelvelli Siva Pillais are Vella Pillais who belong to the Pandiya mandalam, they tend to differentiate themselves from the non-vegetarian Pandiya Pillais and claim supremacy. 

Similarly, even though the Shoziya Vellals and Karkathars both inhabit Chola mandalam and share their Pillai surnames, the vegetarian Karkathars claim supremacy over the non–vegetarian Shoziya Vellas.the most isolated group is the Nanjil Pillais.

Tirunelveli Saiva Pillai's are spread all over Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of India; Within Tamil Nadu, their concentration is more in Chennai, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Kanyakumari, Madurai, Virudhunagar, Theni and Dindigul districts. 

They have also migrated to a large level in Sri Lanka in previous centuries and to USA and UK in the last century.”

A significant number of the community converted to Christianity during the Dutch & British times and still retain the caste identity as Pillai.

 The other Pillai communities from Sri Lanka and Kerala are not to be confused with the Vellalar community of Tamil Nadu though they are part of the larger Pillai community spread across the world. 

That way personalities from the past like Maruthanayagam Pillai later Yousuf Khan, made famous by Kamal Hassan’s shelved movie project, Anand Ranga Pillai Dubash to French from Pondicherry, SJV Chelvanayagam Sri Lankan Tamil politician, LTTE Supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran to living personalities like Justice Navaneetham “Navi” PIllay (former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, hailing from South Africa) are prominent people from the expansive Pillai community.

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