Valivitta Thevar [SEP] date of death
Valivitta Thevar
Valivitta Thevar (1889–1927) was an Indian social reformer and teacher. He was the "kulaguru" of Keelathooval area in Ramnad District in the early twentieth century.
Background.
Thooval Valivitta Thevar was born in KeelaSakkulam,near Kamuthi,to SiraiMeetta Thevar. They are descendants of AdhiNarayana Thevar, who was their important ancestor, whose name was given to successive generations and in vogue still today,in the considerable number of persons carrying the name in the village contemporarily. Valivitta Kilavan is their KulaDeivam. The
Valivitta Thevar in his childhood was showing good accomplishment in athletics and he was noticed by a visiting educationist, who took him along and educated him to become a teacher as per the existing educational system of those times. He became teacher in the Christian Missionaries School in Paramakudi. When he married Umayakkal,the daughter of Chinnu Thevar in Keelathooval, he shifted to the Government School in Kothanda Raman Pattinam (K.R.Pattinam), near Keelathooval. Here he continued to teach till his last days.
Not only the formal education,