Third Day of Tamil Rebellion

Tamil Nadu student took protest demonstration on January 27, 1965 too. Size of the participants rivalled the January 25 processions. At the end of the demonstrations, students announced an indefinite strike.

The size and vehemence of the demonstations scared the Indian govg in Delhi. No sure that TN police would suppress the protests it air lifted troops to TN. It was followed by more troops and north Indian police by rail and buses.

In the days to come Many towns and cities had the blood of Tamil martyrs spilled on their streets.

I will post more again in the coming days.

For more information read

http://www.tamiltribune.com/03/0101-anti-hindi-agitation-history.html

Kayalvizhi wrote:Size of the participants rivalled the January 25 processions.

Really big participants, eh?

Just cut to the chase and tell us what happens on the 12th day of Christmas.

Kayalvizhi wrote:Third Day of Tamil Rebellion

Tamil Nadu student took protest demonstration on January 27, 1965 too. Size of the participants rivalled the January 25 processions. At the end of the demonstrations, students announced an indefinite strike.

The size and vehemence of the demonstations scared the Indian govg in Delhi. No sure that TN police would suppress the protests it air lifted troops to TN. It was followed by more troops and north Indian police by rail and buses.

In the days to come Many towns and cities had the blood of Tamil martyrs spilled on their streets.

I will post more again in the coming days.

For more information read

http://www.tamiltribune.com/03/0101-anti-hindi-agitation-history.html

The truth about the 1965 agitation:

Agitation of 1965
Main article: Madras anti-Hindi agitation of 1965
five men and a boy sitting in chairs. Four of the men are middle aged and one is in his seventies. One of the middle aged men is leaning toward and speaking to the old man.
(Front row : left to right) K. A. Mathialagan, C. N. Annadurai, Rajaji and M. Karunanidhi

As January 26, 1965 approached, the anti-Hindi agitation in Madras State grew in numbers and urgency. The Tamil Nadu Students Anti Hindi Agitation Council was formed in January as an umbrella student organisation to coordinate the anti-Hindi efforts.[37][70] The office bearers of the council were student union leaders from all over Madras State including P. Seenivasan, K. Kalimuthu, Na. Kamarasan, Seyaprakasam, Ravichandran, Tiruppur. S. Duraiswamy, Sedapatti Muthaiah, Durai Murugan, K. Raja Mohammad, Navalavan, M. Natarajan and L. Ganesan.[71][72]

Several student conferences were organised throughout the state to protest against Hindi imposition.[50] On 17 January, the Madras State Anti-Hindi Conference was convened at Trichy and was attended by 700 delegates from Madras, Maharashtra, Kerala and Mysore. They called for the indefinite suspension of Part XVII of the constitution.[37][73][74] The Home and Information & Broadcasting ministries of the central government (headed by Nanda and Indira Gandhi respectively) upped the ante and issued circulars for replacing English with Hindi from 26 January.[75] On 16 January, Annadurai announced that 26 January (also the Republic Day of India) would be observed as a day of mourning. Chief minister Bhaktavatsalam warned that the state government would not tolerate the sanctity of the Republic day blasphemed and threatened the students with "stern action" if they participated in politics. The DMK advanced the "Day of Mourning" by a day. On 25 January, Annadurai was taken into preventive custody along with 3000 DMK members to forestall the agitations planned for the next day.[76] On 26 January, 50,000 students from Madras city's colleges marched from Napier park to the Government secretariat at Fort St. George and unsuccessfully tried to petition the chief minister.[75] (Some tabloids like Tamiltribune put the death toll at 12 million)

On 25 January, a clash between agitating students and Congress party workers in Madurai went out of control and became a riot. Rioting soon spread to other parts of the State.[50][71] Police responded with lathi charges and firing on student processions. Acts of arson, looting and damage to public property became common. Railway cars and Hindi name boards at railway stations were burned down; telegraph poles were cut and railway tracks displaced. The Bhaktavatsalam Government considered the situation as a law and order problem and brought in para military forces to quell the agitation. Incensed by police action, violent mobs killed two police men. Several agitators committed suicide by self-immolation and by consuming poison. In two weeks of riots, around 70 people were killed (by official estimates). Some unofficial reports put the death toll as high as 500. A large number of students were arrested. The damage to property was assessed as one crore Rupees.[19][50][64][68][71][77][78][79]

On 28 January, classes in Madras University, Annamalai University and other colleges and schools in the state were suspended indefinitely. Within the Congress, opinion was divided: one group led by K. Kamaraj wanted the government not to impose Hindi on the Tamils; but others like Morarji Desai did not relent.[64] Home minister Nanda agreed with Bhaktavatsalam's handling of the agitation.[80][81] Rioting continued throughout the first week of February and by the second week students lost control of the agitation. Violence continued despite Annadurai's appeal for calm. Efforts were made by both sides to find a compromise. On 11 February, C. Subramaniam and O. V. Alagesan, two union ministers from Madras state, resigned protesting the government's language policy.[37][68][78][82][83] President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan refused to accept the Prime Minister Shastri's recommendation that their resignations be accepted. Shastri backed down and made a broadcast through All India Radio on February 11. Expressing shock over the riots, he promised to honour Nehru's assurances. He also assured Tamils that English would continue to be used for centre-state and intrastate communications and that the All India Civil Services examination would continue to be conducted in English.[64][82]

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