Searching My Roots
Like all, at least once in life, everyone is interested in knowing about their origin. Who am I? Who are my ancestors? Is there some well know person among my ancestors? How did my caste came into being? What is the origin of my Caste? I too like others is curious to know about the answers to these question. I know from my school certificate my caste is mentioned as Valluvan and my Sub caste as Valluvapandaram. With these information on hand, I started my search to identify my origin. Google has answer to everything. I entered the keyword Valluvan. The screen popped up the answer. Valluvan are priest and astrologer of the Scheduled Caste in Tamil Nadu. My next keyword was Valluvapandaram again the same description popped up. I entered the books section in google, nothing much I could gain from there. There were things which made me proud. They were priest of the Pallava kingdom before the advent of Brahmanism. This was the only information that connected Valluvans to a Kingdom. There...