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The erstwhile Travancore Princely State was located at the south-west extremity of India. In this state the low caste people were ill-treated by the high caste people. So a long drawn struggle was started by Nesamony, the founder of the Tamil Nadu Congress. The Congress fought for the rights of the depressed classes and at the same time demanded that the Tamil speaking areas, Kalkulam, Vilavancode, Agasteeswaram, Thovalai, Neyyattinkarai, Chenkottai and Devikulam of Travancore should be united with the Tamil State. The Travancore Tamil Nadu Congress was started in 1947 and proceeded to demand for the upheaval of the downtrodden communities and for the union of the Tamil speaking areas of Travancore with Tamil Nadu. Their continuous struggles resulted in the liberation of the low caste people and the union of Tamil speaking areas with Tamil Nadu.