South Kanara Dravida Brahmin Association, Chennai

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South Kanara Dravida Brahmin Association

The year was 1912 – a century ago that a few veterans who emigrated from South Kanara district of the Madras Presidency to city of Madras to study professional courses like Medicine, Law and Engineering decided to form a small group to help the brothers and sisters of the community who had the same desire to study and settle in the city. South Kanara then had no Law or Engineering colleges or Medical Institute. Being children of poor Purohits or Archakas of temple or small time landowners or cooks, they had very limited resources but were full of ambitions and dreams of a bright future. Some travelled to Bombay but many came to Madras – travelling by train from Calicut and later from Cannanore as then Mangalore Mail terminates at these stations. They walked or sought bullock carts to convey them from Udupi, Mangalore and other small towns in the district to catch the train from Mangalore.

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