. Formation of Tamil Nadu State In the year , Lord Wellesley created the Madras Presidency. Until the second half of the 18th century, the different small Kingdoms ruled South India. The British conquest of South India led to the integration of different Kingdoms into one.
This Madras Presidency was an administrative subdivision of British India. This administrative subdivision included the present day Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, some parts of Odisha, Kerala, Karnataka and the Lakshadweep. After the Independence Madras Presidency became the Madras State. Then due to the linguistically based reorganisation of Indian States on November , , the new separate State for Tamils was created that was formerly known as the Madras State.
Later the name of Madras State was renamed as Tamil Nadu after the great political struggle of Tamil people. The Emergence of Linguistic Nationalism In the early 20th century along with the national consciousness, the linguistic regional consciousness also emerged in the different parts of India due to the influence of the vernacular press and regional political associations. The ‘Indian Nation’ imagined by the Indian National Congress, a leading body of Nationalist movement contained several problems. One of the problems was it gave the honoured position of national language to Hindi.
This created the way for the emergence of Tamil linguistic sub- nationalism in the second decade of the 20th century. It witnessed the emergence of the non-Brahmin movement as a complex issue that included caste conflict, linguistic nationalism and class struggle. T. Madhavan, Tyagaraja, and other non-Brahmin leaders formed the South Indian Liberal Federation.
Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy Tyagarajar T. Madhavan Bhaktvatsalam Later it was popularly known as the ‘Justice Party’. Justice Party was had contested in the provincial elections of Madras at , and it emerged victoriously and formed the government.
From to , it formed four out of the five ministries. Finally, it lost to Congress in the election, it never recovered. Later emerged the leadership of Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy and his ‘Self- respect Movement’.
These movements created great influence in the Tamil people’s