Thillaiyadi valliammai biography for kids

Thillaiyadi Valliammai (22 February 1898 – 22 February 1914) was a South African Tamil girl who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in her early years when she developed her nonviolent methods in South Africa fighting its apartheid regime.^[1]

Biography

She was born to R.

Munuswamy Mudaliar and Mangalam, a young immigrant couple from a small village called Thillaiyadi in Mayiladuthurai district in India to Johannesburg – the gold-city of South Africa to work for their way out of difficulty.^[2] She was from Sengunthar Kaikola Mudaliar community.^[3] Her father was a trader and owner of a confectionery shop.

Thillaiyadi valliammai biography for kids

Since her mother Mangalam was from Thillaiyadi in Tamil Nadu, her daughter Valliammai came to be popularly called Thillaiyadi Valliammai. Valliammai had never been to India. She grew in an environment that was rather hostile to Indians.

But the young child did not even know that it was not right to be segregated so, until she wa