Gounder
English
Etymology
From Tamil கவுண்டர் (kavuṇṭar, “protector of the country”).
Noun
Gounder (plural Gounders)
- (India) A title used by various communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
- 2009 May 21, Jayaraj Sivan, “Gounder consolidation could pose headache to major parties”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 2012-11-04:
- What is intriguing is the poor performance of the party in Karur, another Kongu heartland, where it got only 14,269 votes. Poll observers feel the KNMK had purposefully fielded a weak candidate, R Natarajan, in Karur to help shift their votes to AIADMK's M Thambidurai, a Gounder by caste.
- 2013 December 29, K. V. Prasad, “KNMK, a sub-regional party at the crossroads”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 2013-12-31:
- DMK’s Coimbatore district secretary and former Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy said there was a wrong impression that the KNMK could bring the entire Gounder community under its fold. As a region dominated by Gounders, it was only natural that the members of the community would be spread across all parties and not under one.
- 2017 June 23, Shaju Philip, “A marriage sharpens caste divide in Kerala village”, in The Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-11-12:
- The settlement, spread over 20 acres, has 460 families, with 133 houses occupied by Chakkliyan families. Other families are of upper-caste Gounders and various Hindu communities.
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See also
- kshatriya
- vaishya