Gounder

plural Gounders · alternative Goundar · alternative Gavundar · alternative Kounder · alternative Koundar · alternative Kavundar

1. IndiaA title used by various communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

   The settlement, spread over 20 acres, has 460 families, with 133 houses occupied by Chakkliyan families. Other families are of upper-caste Gounders and various Hindu communities.

   2017 June 23, Shaju Philip, “A marriage sharpens caste divide in Kerala village”, in The Indian Express, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020

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   What is intriguing is the poor performance of the party in Karur, another Kongu heartland, where it got only 14,269 votes. Poll observers feel the KNMK had purposefully fielded a weak candidate, R Natarajan, in Karur to help shift their votes to AIADMK's M Thambidurai, a Gounder by caste.

   2009 May 21, Jayaraj Sivan, “Gounder consolidation could pose headache to major parties”, in The Times of India, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2012

   DMK’s Coimbatore district secretary and former Minister Pongalur N. Palanisamy said there was a wrong impression that the KNMK could bring the entire Gounder community under its fold. As a region dominated by Gounders, it was only natural that the members of the community would be spread across all parties and not under one.

   2013 December 29, K. V. Prasad, “KNMK, a sub-regional party at the crossroads”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 31 Dec 2013